the ball only has to be passed the last chain link. It does not have to be past the Orange post. The chain links are what actually measure the 10 yards and the Orange post are there so that there is a place for someone to hold the chain and/or move it when need be…
yeah boy, somebody paid good money for that call. from the reaction of Michigans coach, he knew it too. thats the one of the most obvious examples of a fix I have ever seen. unbelievable
Absolute shame on that referee. Hope he's reading this and is reminded again about how he lied. Plain and simple. Hope he had the courage to admit he was wrong. My goodness.
Just think about it if the refs never gave Michigan that bogus 4th down we would have never seen one of the greatest plays in college football history the very next snap
The worst I’ve ever seen was in the 2013 Outback bowl. Michigan was clearly Short on a 4th down, and everyone could see the ball was 3-4” short of the stick!!! It was clear to the announcers, players (on both teams), coaches, and viewers. Jeff Maconaghy was the ref who made the call. He Was with theBig East at the time. #Worstcallever
@@GamecockMenace and the craziest post I have even seen was in the 2013 Outback bowl. Michigan was clearly Short on a 4th down, and everyone could see the ball was 3-4” short of the stick!!! It was clear to the announcers, players (on both teams), coaches, and viewers. Jeff Maconaghy was the ref who made the call. He Was with theBig East at the time.
I never saw this game but it looks like it very possibly was touching the fist down line if only by a hair. The picture they showed in this video is very misleading seeing as it was taken from an angle behind the ball and not right down the line. Even the camera filming it when he calls it a first down is at an angle. It was a lot closer than you all say. But loved seeing what followed anyway.
WOW!!!! I was hoping to see this video as I missed the game. I will be honest, I like Michigan, but that was a BS call. I saw a post below mentioning the Rules Book definition of 10yds between the inside edges of the poles, AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! That post even had the exact reference for the rule listed perfectly. I was also able to catch a replay of the MONSTER hit that followed. Clowney's hit is how to play football. It was clean and perfect form tackle. Glad justice was served!
I mean, if you want to rig it, spot the ball in the wrong place lol. Don't call something that you can insert a whole notecard stack in between the ball and the marker that will be obvious to everyone and everything. I just don't get how he explained himself, or how another ref didn't override it.
All news publications ESPN, Yahoo, Public Networks, are talking about how it was obviously short. The ref himself even said later (unofficially) that he was wrong. No matter what you say here, your argument is invalid.
Big michigan fan, first off butthurt michigan fans do not resemble real michigan fans. incredible hit by one of the best D ends ever. mad respect to dude... knocked the fuckin earwax out of Smith. i still like that hit by that a&m linebacker in the 80's (or early 90's? idk) that will stand as the most clean, brutal hit forever i think. lewan actually played great that day,contained clowney for the most part. miscommunication or fucked up assigment.
Thank you so much for posting this!!! I didn't DVR this game line I normally do. Yeah, this play pissed Me off royally as I'm sure it did every other gamecock fan watching the game but then the next play redeems us completely and show what a badass you Davey on clowning really is and everyone went from booing and being pissed off to screaming and celebrating the most badass play I've ever seen from the Gamecocks! We fucked their shit up! That's what you get when you Pisa o
the sad part about this whole situation is that the player who got crushed and fumbled the very next play took the brunt of the karma for the refs cheating. I really wish is was the cheating refs that suffered the impact instead of that Michigan player.
Michigan fan here too that was short by inches. Unfortunately for us Karma was alive and well. Karma being Clowney. 😂 The hit that was heard around the universe.
You can believe that if you want to... but every football game played before this, every major pundit of football, every hall of famer... says you are wrong. The marker has ALWAYS been the spot to make... not the last chain, if the last chain was the spot to make, the marker would be there. Go out and ask 100 football fans what the spot to make is for a first down... every one of them will tell you the marker.
It's amazing what a clown show sports officiating had become. And it will continue this way until they are finally held accountable with fines, suspensions, terminations, etc.
Guys, it's the LAST LINK IN THE CHAIN! The post and that other little hook holding the chain to the post doesn't count at all! It's been like that forever! Spurrier should have known better since he's been playing and coaching since forever. Actually, it worked out much better for SC since they may not have gotten the ball so close after that Clowney hit.
From the NCAA rule book: "The yardage chain shall join two rods not fewer than 5 feet high, the rods’ inside edges being exactly 10 yards apart when the chain is fully extended." Glad it worked out the way it did though.
(Stupid voice to text) *Jadaveon Clowney *when you piss off the Gamecocks and JD. That play was pure adrenaline! We were pissed, cocked, and ready to fire on Michigan after that BULLSHIT call!
Michigan has always had BS officiating in their bowl games, remember the clear touchdown VT had at the end of the sugar bowl last year that the ref later admitted was a bad call? Didnt matter what the official says after the game is in the books. Lucky for SC this play happened with enough time to recover from it.
Fast forward to 2024 vs LSU, And the Refs are still working to take games from the Gamecocks vs big money programs. (A little more successful this go around).
withchza, maybe you should watch football or learn the rules before making such an uninformed post. The rule, as it has always been, is the ball has to touch or extend past the pole for the first down. Not the clip, not the last link, the pole. It was a blatantly errant call and inexcusable. It worked out for USC of course, but that doesn't make the call right at all. A call that bad leads to legitimate questioning of the head official's intent.
You're wrong. From Section 2, Article 7 of Rule 1: "The yardage chain shall join two rods not fewer than 5 feet high, the rods’ inside edges being exactly 10 yards apart when the chain is fully extended." It's to the rod's inside edge, which is the pole, not the hook.
