Ope3
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You should channel your energy into pointing out to Hawkeye fans that even after the call, they had more than 1:30 of game clock with a Time Out to advance the ball roughly 20-25 yds on offense into pretty reasonable FG range.Someday I will look back at my life and be disgusted with myself about how much time I wasted educating people on a 2023 Invalid Fair Catch Signal referee video review play reversal from 2023.
Iowa fans simply won't let it die, and I have anointed myself to be the person to educate every last one of them, one at a time.
We all remember the play. Every time it is brought up on line, it is the same things:
1. He wasn't signaling fair catch (nobody is saying he was. he was waving his left arm, which is an INVALID FAIR CATCH signal)
2. Well, if it was a fair catch, why were the Minnesota players trying to tackle him (because players play until the whistle and it wasn't a fair catch, it was an invalid fair catch and it wasn't called until video review, at which time everything that came after Dejean fielding the ball is wiped away, including the time that had expired during the null run back).
3. That is a "phantom rule" that NEVER gets called. (It was called on the Gophers just a couple games earlier, and it was called in last year's college football playoff, to just name two examples. It does get called.)
4. That play is not reviewable (Just google "is invalid fair catch a reviewable play in college football." It most certainly is reviewable).
5. Well, they were reviewing for going out of bounds. You can't review for one thing and find something else. (see #4, when a play like that is reviewed, the entire play is reviewed).
6. They just reversed it because of gambling and point spreads. (It was reversed because it is a real rule and the waving of the left arm was obvious on review. If you truly believe the game is THAT compromised by gambling, what are you doing caring about it)?
7. He was just waving people away! (Which is an invalid fair catch signal. You literally just admitted he performed an invalid fair catch signal).
8. He was just pointing at the ball. (yes, with his right arm, while he was waving his left arm).
9. There was no way he was signaling for fair catch (but his actions were an invalid fair catch signal regardless what his intent was).
10. Iowa was totally screwed! (except both the B1G 10 and NCAA came out later to comment on the call to confirm it was the right call, and now it is clearly seen in reffing conversations as the correct call).
11. It's a dumb rule that shouldn't exist (Perhaps, that is subjective. But, if it didn't exist there is no doubt that returners would continually push the limits of fake fair catch signal vs real fair catch signal).
In a nutshell, I am amazed that two years later most Iowa (and even a few MN) fans literally don't know what was called, but they will argue it all day long as if they have the NCAA football rulebook memorized.
Iowa. Failed.
Of course that runs the risk of Hawkeye fans pointing out that currently the Floyd of Rosedale currently is hanging out in Iowa City.