UK-Fl Game Thread

[Dwight Schrute]

I think Stoops clarified this well when he said “what am I supposed to tell my guys?”

I don’t know if it necessarily cost us the game because we still had our chances but I don’t believe we lose without that horrid call. I’m livid over this rule. It’s the worst and it’s got to go.

[Dwight Schrute]

I honestly feared Lynn Bowden was going to get a targeting call when he went to tackle that Florida defender that intercepted Sawyer’s misthrown pass.

[DA#23]

Regardless, UK should have won and did not win. Again.

Probably will be an overcast level of loss at the season's end.

[Lighthouse]

Hitting with your head up, full speed, will lead to broken necks and worse.

I have no idea how to adjust the way to tackle, but we pay Coaches a lot of money to figure it out.

[Lighthouse]

For those that want to voice your displeasure with the targeting rule, here's who you contact.

Rogers Redding
rwredding.cfo@gmail.com
Office, 205-565-7091

Good luck.

[Blue Heaven]

1. Ditch the wildcat play
2. Get Ahmad Wagner the ball
3. Play to win the game

[Matt Dillon]

I'm just now getting in on the conversation, and this has probably been commented on previously, but when is coach Stoops going to realize that Smoke and A.J. need to trade places on the depth chart?

[40bill]

I'm just now getting in on the conversation, and this has probably been commented on previously, but when is coach Stoops going to realize that Smoke and A.J. need to trade places on the depth chart?

lol.....they certainly did tonight. I'm not sure what Rodriguez has done except ball security to be buried like he has.

biggest question I have for those watching, why did UK quit pressuring the QB when it was apparent our secondary was just too green?

[KCKUKFan]

Don’t even defend this terrible freaking rule. It is the ABSOLUTE WORST!

AND SO IS EVERY OFFICIAL WHO CALLS ANY BUT THE MOST EGREGIOUS. They (the rules committee and the officials are ruining the game.

Correction, have ruined.

The Wildcatnation Robot has malfunctioned lol

[KCKUKFan]

There is no way to coach these kids to change the way they tackle. They've been instructed one way for ten-fifteen years, so the head-down tackling is instinctual.

[Joneslab]

Seems like the rule in targeting should be about violent/unnecessary hits or something. Plays where you've got defenseless players out there and the defender launches himself or something like that.

As far as I could tell, none of the targeting calls last night--ours or theirs--was like that. They're very subjective judgment calls, and I wonder if the game is moving too fast for the officials at times to make that call.

[Dwight Schrute]

Seems like the rule in targeting should be about violent/unnecessary hits or something. Plays where you've got defenseless players out there and the defender launches himself or something like that.

As far as I could tell, none of the targeting calls last night--ours or theirs--was like that. They're very subjective judgment calls, and I wonder if the game is moving too fast for the officials at times to make that call.

Agreed. If it’s moving too fast for the officials, it’s moving too fast for the players.

[Spiritof96]

The Wildcatnation Robot has malfunctioned lol

Now that was funny!

[Lighthouse]

Seems like the rule in targeting should be about violent/unnecessary hits or something. Plays where you've got defenseless players out there and the defender launches himself or something like that.

As far as I could tell, none of the targeting calls last night--ours or theirs--was like that. They're very subjective judgment calls, and I wonder if the game is moving too fast for the officials at times to make that call.

I think that is exactly what the rule was intended to do, but the changes in the wording have caused this confusion. None of the targeting fouls last night were violent or vicious, but they were called as the rule reads and the Officials are instructed. The game is very fast, but speed IMO had nothing to do with the calls.

[Blue Heaven]

There is no way to coach these kids to change the way they tackle. They've been instructed one way for ten-fifteen years, so the head-down tackling is instinctual.

Watched with my buddy whose Son plays High Shool football. Asked him how they are taught. Head up.