Why didn't the Alabama player get called for targeting?

Birmingham.

In the Bammer/TAMU game yesterday the CBS guys both couldn't figure why it wasn't targeting on that player - I think his name was Noil.

Soon they heard from the SEC officials - Noil wasn't a defenseless player so it wasn't targeting.

CBS to their credit quickly had the rules on the screen. And what the SEC officials said was false.



"1) No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul.

This specifies a hit with the top of the helmet, but not necessarily a hit to the opponent’s helmet.

The next item in the rulebook, including the aforementioned "Note 1," which explains the many additional situations in which all kinds of hits are considered targeting:

No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent (See Note 2 below) with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul (Rules 2-27-14 and 9-6). (A.R. 9-1-4-I-VI)

Note 1: "Targeting" means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball..."

Okay, in both the UT game where Evan Berry was hit crown to crown by a Bammer player and the TAMU game where this TAMU player was blatantly hit helmet to helmet, clear targeting under the rule wasn't called.

The SEC office went out of its way (I am assuming they know the rules) to misrepresent the rules, which is pretty crappy.

Because it wasn't targeting? Dunno

Papa still struggling with reading comprhension, lol.

maybe i'm missing something but was that the first call since they made the rule that was missed?

Get over it,refs didn't call it,review didn't call it,he was not a defenseless player,pussy. Maybe that should just wear flags or play two hand touch.

Plain and simple. Anytime , anything that has money involve can and will be corrupted we talking big business. Called will always seem to lean with the $ ???????

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he was not a defenseless player,

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This is the first bullshite excuse they gave, after everyone brought up the rules, I heard the announcers say multiple times that they were being told that "the hit was not made by the crown of the helmet" which is also bullshite.

Any other player on any other team would have been tossed for that play and all of you gumps know it.

The replay center is located in the SEC offices in Birmingham, Alabama which has a plaque of Bear Bryant as you walk in. Steve Shaw, a rare bammer graduate is the head of officiating in the SEC. Also, 63% of the refs in the SEC live in Alabama. This is like screaming at the TV when an SEC basketball team doesn't get a call against Kentucky. It has been this way forever.