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per The Gazette:
History won’t wipe away a 2011 onside kick when four Minnesota players decimated two Hawkeyes, which enabled a surprise recovery and led to an 22-21 upset. But if the same play took place this fall, it would be nullified.
A kicking team’s players remain banned from blocking the receiving team before they were eligible to touch the ball. Starting this year, the NCAA’s rules committee deemed blocking on kickoffs reviewable, something for which Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz has lobbied.
“Coach Ferentz sent this play in the last couple of years,” said Bill Carollo, the Big Ten’s coordinator of football officials. “I couldn’t get it through for two consecutive years. So finally it went to the rules committee and said this is a safety issue. They can’t be blocking; the kicking team cannot block until they’re eligible to touch the ball.
“The receivers ... usually I’m waiting for this ball that’s kicked in the ground, and I’m defenseless and we’re blowing people up. Even if we’re not hitting them in the head, we’re blowing them up. So they can’t be blocking until the ball is touched by the receivers or the ball goes 10 yards.”
The rule directly impacts the longtime Big Ten border rivals. Minnesota dinged Iowa in consecutive years on onside kicks, and both were crucial toward deciding the game’s outcome. In 2010, Minnesota converted one early under interim head coach Jeff Horton and took a 10-0 lead en route to a 27-24 victory. The following year, the play was perhaps more pivotal.
http://thegazette.com/subject/sport...2014-and-gain-x2014-ncaa-rule-change-20150713
Go Floyd!!
History won’t wipe away a 2011 onside kick when four Minnesota players decimated two Hawkeyes, which enabled a surprise recovery and led to an 22-21 upset. But if the same play took place this fall, it would be nullified.
A kicking team’s players remain banned from blocking the receiving team before they were eligible to touch the ball. Starting this year, the NCAA’s rules committee deemed blocking on kickoffs reviewable, something for which Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz has lobbied.
“Coach Ferentz sent this play in the last couple of years,” said Bill Carollo, the Big Ten’s coordinator of football officials. “I couldn’t get it through for two consecutive years. So finally it went to the rules committee and said this is a safety issue. They can’t be blocking; the kicking team cannot block until they’re eligible to touch the ball.
“The receivers ... usually I’m waiting for this ball that’s kicked in the ground, and I’m defenseless and we’re blowing people up. Even if we’re not hitting them in the head, we’re blowing them up. So they can’t be blocking until the ball is touched by the receivers or the ball goes 10 yards.”
The rule directly impacts the longtime Big Ten border rivals. Minnesota dinged Iowa in consecutive years on onside kicks, and both were crucial toward deciding the game’s outcome. In 2010, Minnesota converted one early under interim head coach Jeff Horton and took a 10-0 lead en route to a 27-24 victory. The following year, the play was perhaps more pivotal.
http://thegazette.com/subject/sport...2014-and-gain-x2014-ncaa-rule-change-20150713
Go Floyd!!
