re: Harrison Hit

No, you won’t change my mind. My interpretation is that it was targeting by the letter of the law. He did launch, he did make forcible contact to the head and neck. Maybe he didn’t mean to, but the rule says nothing about that. There are others on here that say it is targeting too. Many say it wasn’t. And that is the problem with the rule, it is all a personal judgement. I stand by the statement that if this had been called in an out of conference game in September, it would have probably stood. And that is another issue. Enforcement of it definitely seems to be influenced by how big the game is.

The OP asked for non-biased opinions. Mine is that it was by rule targeting.