re: Let’s Talk Officiating

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Go to 17 second mark on that video. UT player clearly leads with the crown of his helmet and hits Young right in the facemask a step or two after he releases

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The crown of the helmet is the top of the helmet, not the face mask and portion of the helmet right above the face mask, which is the part of the defender’s helmet that makes contact. You honestly don’t know what the crown of the helmet is???

Young is defenseless in that clip so what you posted might be targeting. What you’re not considering is that the defender begins to raise his left arm before making contact and then the actual hit is obscured by other players. If the defender initialized contact with his helmet to young’s helmet that’s targeting. If he initializes contact with his left arm/hand, it’s not targeting. And the clip you provided doesn’t show definitively which happened first. What you posted could be targeting, we simply can’t draw that conclusion from what you linked.

I’m not shocked that someone who does not know what the crown of the helmet is doesn’t understand the targeting rule