The correct call. Did you listen to the announcers explain the rule change? In NFL and high school it would be enforced on the try or the kickoff, not in college.
That's unsportsmanlike conduct? Are you kidding me? For a start, the rule's stupid. Everyone needs to grow a pair. Secondly, the enforcement was ridiculous. That is not unsportsmanlike conduct. Holding your arms out for half a second? How about we just purge all emotion from the game? This enforced protecting of feelings that so many colleges are succumbing to is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard.
NCAA said you CAN NOT EVER look back at a player trying to tackle you thats obnoxiously flagrantly excessively celebratory, no touchdown. 15 yard penalty against LSU. No call of that nature has ever been made since, or before
WTF?? Let me guess next they'll decide not to keep score so no body goes home a loser with their feelings hurt. next year why not ban tackling for being to dangerous.
Everybody says stupid stuff like this and then a player on the team you hate the most does it against YOUR team, and you want one of YOUR team's players to exact revenge on him. THAT is why the rule exists. Incidentally, the player CAN celebrate. The rules committee (made up of coaches, by the way) want him to celebrate WITH HIS TEAMMATES on the sideline, not out on the field where his actions may be misconstrued. That is such a simple concept. It is amazing you can't grasp it without explanation.
@@ashlogan2049 How can you misconstrue a celebration? Wow. If you have to ask that question there's no answer I can give you that will satisfy you. Try to get field access to some high school football games next season, particularly ones involving good teams vs. not so good teams. You'll get a real education. Better yet, just go to a game in which you have no rooting interest. Watch one half from one side and the other half from the other. Don't watch the game so much as try to pay attention to the comments from those in the stands.
I actually went to high school with Brad, he's one of the nicest guys ive ever known and he was never one to do something like that unless he was just really excited. I can guarantee that he didn't do it out of malice towards the other teammates
I agree with this rule... However I do NOT agree with that call. That was in no way, shape, or form an egregious taunt by the punter. You robbed him of his moment and LSU of an amazing touchdown. Absolutely pathetic.
Especially being an ex Aussie Rules Football player where this type of showboating is almost encouraged and same with "soccer" in England where fans chant for minutes on end about how shit the other team is etc.. It just takes the fun out of it, it was obvious that he just pulled off an amazing play and the adrenaline kicked in that tad bit too early. It's stupid to not encourage players to take risks like these and moments that leave your jaw almost on the flaw
+francobobfred That's why I said it's a BS rule. I couldn't blame the officials for enforcing an idiotic rule passed by a bunch of taxpayer overpaid college administrators who never played the game.
I know we were winning but it takes some serious balls to dial up a trick play on 4th and 15. LSU may have the only kicker to ever get called for taunting. That was amazing alone.
I'm in favor of penalizing excessive celebration. Key word "excessive". That doesn't mean you should penalize them for any show of happiness that they just made a huge play. What he did was hardly excessive.
The dumbest thing about this was the very next week, some Michigan St. player did an even more egregious taunt during a pick-six and it wasn't called back.
that is the most absurd thing I've seen in quite a while. more evidence that colleges need to provide a "safe space," because god forbid anyone ever get their feelings hurt.
This looked to me as a punt/run option play. Besides of the stupid rule and call, it looks like Wing had either the option to punt it, if Florida rushed, or to run with it, if they went all for the return like here. Great playcall and decision by LSU and Wing, destroyed by an aweful rule and enforcement
What, exactly did Brad Wing do?... I couldn't really tell what it was that he did. I remember watching the replay of this game, but, I missed the part where the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty came into effect.
I really want to know who decided to make this rule. They're gonna call back a touchdown because someone celebrated? Who cares if it was before he scored...
1:54 "It's supposed to be an AGGREGIOUS call that stops that" It looked like a pretty mild act of celebration to me. Watch out, LSU, like all winners, everybody will be gunning for you. Even, it seems, the officiating committee. Geaux TIGERS!
NCAA said you CAN NOT EVER look back at a player trying to tackle you thats obnoxiously flagrantly excessively celebratory, no touchdown. 15 yard penalty against LSU. No call of that nature has ever been made since, or before
The only time in the history of college football a fake punt resulted in a TD and was taken away by a taunting penalty. get your feelings hurt by an australian punter florida lol
Worst rule I have ever seen in any sport ever. I thought penalties were supposed to take back plays where the action could have made a difference in the play. Celebrating has absolutely nothing to do with the score. It should be enforced after the score because it's clear that he was gonna run it in. As a matter of fact, celebrating actually raises the chances of not scoring. Why even take the TD away in the first place?
NCAA said you CAN NOT EVER look back at a player trying to tackle you thats obnoxiously flagrantly excessively celebratory, no touchdown. 15 yard penalty against LSU. No call of that nature has ever been made since, or before
All right, someone help me out here... my understanding was the whole rationale for spot fouls was so a player couldn't use a penalty to his advantage. Say a quarterback is 14 yards behind the line and he's about to get sacked. If he commits intentional grounding from that distance, it's a spot foul, so he doesn't gain any advantage from throwing the ball away. But how does it make any sense to make unsportsmanlike conduct a spot call? What does this serve? _Who_ wanted this? Also, what is the back judge doing? If anything, it should've been the line judge making the call; he had the best view of Wing.
Not a LSU fan but they could've atleast just enforced the penalty on the kickoff if anything. What a terrible rule. It's not like taunting prevented anyone from making the tackle. No matter what he would've scored so why take away the TD.
NCAA said you CAN NOT EVER look back at a player trying to tackle you thats obnoxiously flagrantly excessively celebratory, no touchdown. 15 yard penalty against LSU. No call of that nature has ever been made since, or before.
They probably studied Florida's punt coverage in film and gave Wing the ability to make the call if Florida bailed out like this. I mean, look at the field. Pretty low-risk call. My 6 year old could have run that in. That said, it was Les Miles against Florida. He loves pulling this crap, with or without a reason and a first-quarter 14 point lead in college football is nothing.
Crap Sanders a lot of ST coordinators call fakes on tons of punts but they are rarely carried out because it like a read option, u only keep it if it's there
As Danielson said, it is supposed to be for an egregious demonstration of taunting, not for a nothing gesture by a punter. So both the rule and the refs are guilty of abject stupidity.
+Fiercer23 well if you look at the video it looked like he was going to punt it but when he looked up he saw all the players already running back so he took off
2024, watching ×fL / usfL and they referenced Brad Wing. Wanted to double check it was him, and typed in lsu fake punt. ✔️ I remember watching this live and to this day, thinking at the time, hey cool play, bad call who would have thought _ that boring October 2011 game and me on my couch would still be getting positive vibes...
Bad call I see nothing wrong he stuck the ball out how is tht offensive to the other team unless if they wanted Florida to win but idk and just tack o the 15 at the end I hate tht new rule
@GerbCD that's a really good point. that should've been the highlight of his college football career. but his moment of glory was sabotaged because he got excited. I wish I could like this 100 more times.
dont you just love it how he's australian and we dont even play the game. He's australian he took on and entire college team and WON. HE"S AUSTRALIAN AND HE"S AWESOME!!!!!!!
A lot of Aussie posting here who have no knowledge of NFL/Gridiron and should just stop commenting. And I'm an Aussie, proudly following the sport for 25 years. It's a bad rule, but it's a rule and it has to be called.
Watch a University Of Miami Hurricane celebration video and you will see why this rule is called "the Miami rule".Wing celebration paled in comparison. The penalty was not meant to be used in such situation.
Wow...this is a ridiculous rule. Essentially it is a "don't be happy when you do good" rule. I can see it when someone is dancing like an idiot and doing back flips or something but the guy just tossed his arms out because he was excited that he was scoring points. I think I've seen this reaction on every other touchdown...ever. If they are going to call every time a guy gets pumped up and excited he scored this rule won't stay. This is insane.
This has to be the biggest mistake college football could've made. That was an amazing touchdown and they should've let him keep it. It doesn't matter anyway seeing as we destroyed Florida in the end. But still, it shouldn't have been called back.
This guy is one of my favorite players at LSU. He handles his business and has to fit right in with the team, you can tell they respect him for all of those kick ass punts.
Last time I heard, USC was for spear tackling, pushing someone into the bleachers or making a profane gesture. Celebrating and even showboating is part of the game.
That play was not called a fake. The punter saw the entire return team turn and run and decided to just take off. It takes balls to do that as the punter but it looks like it was a no brainer.
Nobody looked back to make sure he kicked the ball. Also, kicking the ball makes a sound, and nobody seemed to notice they didn't hear the ball get kicked.
Remember watching this play live and being completely floored that they flagged it for taunting. Legit nobody for Florida was even arguing for it, just another case of refs making a terrible wrong right call. I wanna say they ended up w/ a FG too but don’t remember
Just some observations I had here..... 1. How on Earth did no one on Florida's return team NOT realize that Wing still had the ball? 2. I don't like the fact that they called the personal foul, but as the rule is written it was the right call. Throw out that rule or at least enforce it with a little more leeway. It's not like the dude did the Deion Sanders Prime Time High step....he just waved his freakin arm!
@threepikas Also he did celebrate on the sideline... he wasn't on the field. U see all those players and fans that don't sit on the actual field? Yea, if you haven't noticed, the fans aren't directly on the field giving him pats on the back
The fact that you have to slow the replay to 5 FPS in order to see the "taunting" penalty tells me all I need to know. SEC officiating at its finest once again
@Nolan5k I do wanna make one statement though. The reason I believe the penalty was called is because there was no reason to run a fake when you're ahead by 14 points. So what that guy did could very well have been rubbing it in. But that doesn't have anything to do with whether or not he earned that score. Because he EARNED it. There's no good reason within the game to say he didn't. Besides, maybe he did that cuz one of the gators talked shit to him.
@wakesurfer930 This also doesn't change the fact that the rule is in place and EVERYONE even a punter must follow it. Whether you agree with the rule or not is a different argument, but he did something against what the rulebook says and was given the penalty, don't hat the referee because he enforced the rules!
The rule is a good one. Plays like that of the clown punter could inspire the other team's players to seek violent punishment against the punter, or, worse, an innocent victim. Agree or not, the punter's gesture was unsportsmanlike conduct because he made his gesture looking at the Gators as they neared him.
What's funny is that this play will echo into the immortal ethos of college football eternity not because of the epic touchdown but because of the sacrilegious result of that being a no. Touchdown
It's COLLEGE end zone celebrations are mostly illegal too. They can taunt once they make it to the NFL and the majority of players who taunt in college don't make it professionally.
