Targeting Calls From Husker Perspective - Lincoln Star Journal

[Iceland12]

From the blog

Targeting Gophers: Nebraska and Minnesota fans can share stories on their distaste for questionable calls on targeting rules.

NU faithful have certainly had their issues with some targeting calls over the years — particularly on Nate Gerry.

But take a look at Minnesota. The Gophers have had six players ejected for targeting this season. The latest one, occurring in the final minute against Purdue last Saturday, could have a big impact on Saturday's game.

Gopher linebacker Nick Rallis was ejected for a questionable targeting call that will force him to sit out the first half this week.

"I really don’t think this as targeting," former NFL referee and current Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira said when asked for his opinion. "I certainly would like to see them reverse this and take it off. Yes, there's a lower of the head, but to me, it's almost all shoulder to shoulder."


A guy getting ejected for a good football hit? Husker fans feel Gopher fans' pain.

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[MNVCGUY]

Been discussed to death but they really do need to institute a review process in order to reverse suspensions resulting from questionable/bad calls like the one on Rallis. Given the amount of time between games it shouldn't be all that hard for the NCAA to set something like that up.

 

[MGGopher]

Yeah, again, discussed at length on this board, but the NCAA needs to do 2 things:

1) Remove the automatic ejection from the penalty, but give officials jurisdiction to eject a player for an egregious, intentional foul.
2) Review all targeting calls by Monday and issue (or uphold) ejections for those deemed to be malicious.

Common sense and judgment needs to come into play on these fouls. We allow refs to figure out what constitutes holding, pass interference, personal foul, etc. They can surely figure out when a player does something stupid and goes head-hunting vs. a player who accidentally dings a guy on an otherwise legal, textbook tackle.

 

[60's Guy]

Yup

Yeah, again, discussed at length on this board, but the NCAA needs to do 2 things:

1) Remove the automatic ejection from the penalty, but give officials jurisdiction to eject a player for an egregious, intentional foul.
2) Review all targeting calls by Monday and issue (or uphold) ejections for those deemed to be malicious.

Common sense and judgment needs to come into play on these fouls. We allow refs to figure out what constitutes holding, pass interference, personal foul, etc. They can surely figure out when a player does something stupid and goes head-hunting vs. a player who accidentally dings a guy on an otherwise legal, textbook tackle.

In agreement with your thoughts. It is just way too severe and controversial as it is now.