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Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated chatted with ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit this week and got his take on the controversial targeting call against LSU linebacker Devin White.

Herbstreit, who will be in Baton Rouge in two weeks for ESPN's College Gameday before the Alabama-LSU matchup, said we would not have ruled White's hit on Nick Fitzgerald as targeting.

He also added that the officials upstairs in the replay booth should be a "safety net" to make sure the right call is made, and in this case, it wasn't.

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Originally published on TigerDroppings.com
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Rebel89 months
We love Herbie this week, don’t we folks?
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abellsujr89 months
They've got to alleviate these gray area calls and make two levels of targeting. The punishment is to severe to eject a player for a gray area call. Give the 15 yard penalty, but ejecting a player for a gray area situation is asinine.
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Capo89 months
There is no grey area in D White’s hit. Wasn’t targeting. On the other hand, there was no grey area in the other games (Bama/Auburn) on their respective hits either. Neither was called targeting when they in fact were.
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Spankum89 months
There already is two levels....one is targeting and the other is a regular personal foul.
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abellsujr89 months
You're combining two different types of fouls. Think basketball. There's a personal foul, then there's flagrant fouls. Two different meanings. Two different types of fouls. But a flagrant foul can come with a serious punishment. That's why they separate flagrant fouls into two categories. 1 and 2. 1, resulting in no ejection for the first offense. A 2 would result in immediate ejection. Both are the same offense, a 2 is just a more serious case of it. Making the decision to not only eject a player for the remainder of the game but ALSO the first quarter of the following game, it should be a serious case or multiple offenses. Doing two 1s could even result in an ejection as well. You can't just throw out ejection for one bull shite push because he touched one part of his helmet or whatever they say he did. He could have knocked him unconscious and the penalty would have been the same lol. There is something fundamentally wrong with the rule. When you can eject a player and/or suspend him for a push because he touched his helmet, something is wrong. Kirk agrees. Many agree at the very least there should be two levels of targeting. Even Marcus Spears agrees with that
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Solo Cam89 months
But but Mascona said it was right. Matt sucks.
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LSU FSU Grad89 months
Everyone agrees it wasn't targeting except those in Alabama.
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TigersFan6489 months
And douchebag Moscona.
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VesperiaLSU89 months
The guy upstairs should be a safety net...unless the guy is a Bama grad.
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WorkinDawg89 months
You misunderstood. He is a safety net....Bama’s safety net
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TigerSpray89 months
His name is Tom Ritter, Bug Eyes.
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Party At LSU89 months
I wonder if our local douche Moscona will tell Herbie to quit crying
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rob6289 months
Moscona is a punk.
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RightWingTiger89 months
Anyone with even 1/2 a brain could see it wasn't targeting. The real tragedy is making a player miss half of the next game. The team being penalized and then the player getting tossed from the game should be enough punishment. Unless it's obviously malicious and appears to be purposely trying to injure someone. Carrying the suspension over to the following game has always seemed excessive to me.
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SamuelClemens89 months
The only thing White did that caused him problems was that final skip-leap he took as he contacted Fitz
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Modest89 months
Except his head did not whip back, Herbs.
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cra_cra89 months
from the ref's point of view (which is what he said), it does appear that way. thus the call on the field is understandable. But, as he said, once you look at the video, it wasn't targeting.
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LSU Coyote89 months
You ppl hate on Herbstreit a lot but feel he has turned a new leaf. It has been years since I have the Homer Herbstreit. Hate on that idoit Joey Galloway.
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SmackDaniels89 months
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WhiskeyPlease89 months
Russian Collusion has no teeth..BAMA SEC Collusion is real
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LuzianaFootball89 months
His head went with his chest that D. White rearranged for him. That is the only reason it appeared to whip back. Fitzgerald actually started turning his head before contact and moved it backwards himself.
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Gumbo189 months
Fitz turned his head to see watch the play. BS call. Clearly not a targeting call.
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SamuelClemens89 months
Hopefully this drives the offseason change needed to make an NBA type, flagrant 1 vs flagrant 2 type deal.
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cypresstiger89 months
Wow, didn't expect love from Herbie
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Nix to Twillie89 months
He gives us plenty of love. Not shocked you ignore it. It’s the cool thing to do around here. More popular to bitch about people hating us.
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Nolaughingmatter89 months
It's not love when he agrees with something or hate when he doesn't. I'd just his analysis and opinion.
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Spankum89 months
Man, Herbie gives LSU all kinds of kudos.
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ByUselves89 months
Herbie tries to call it as he sees it, just sometimes he is blind in 1 eye, and can't see out of the other.
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