OT: Ducks and zona... ref question

[N&B4PSU]

Down 21-3 and zona completes pass at duck 24... receiver makes it down inside the 20 but on replay, his knee clearly touched down at the 24. Clock now shows 7 (seven) seconds.

OK.

After replay, they move ball back to the 24 and leave the clock at... yup, 7 seconds.

Now old dude here can manage one of dem new fangled replay buttons on his tv gizmo and... hey now, his knee touched down at 13 seconds. IOW, they'd have time to take at least one shot at the endzone, possibly 2.. before kicking FG.

Instead, they take no chances at 7 seconds and kick it. BTW, not a peep from zona's coach. Or boothies.

So... board refs... how about that one. Is there some reason why they wouldn't move the clock back to 13? I figure this kind of BS will happen to us one fine day in Columbus and I better know now lol.

And hopefully we won't be down 21-3.

 

[Carl Spackler]

That may be an oversight, in Columbus it will be far from an oversight. Protection of the conference darlings at all costs, watch for laundry early and often but more often in critical situations.

 

[CDLionFL]

That does sound pretty odd. Did the catch result in a first down? My guess would only be that if it wasn't a first down, they made an assumption that 6 seconds might have gone off the clock? I know in the NFL, they have a 10-second runoff for something like that so that would have made it even worse for AZ.

 

[N&B4PSU]

That does sound pretty odd. Did the catch result in a first down? My guess would only be that if it wasn't a first down, they made an assumption that 6 seconds might have gone off the clock? I know in the NFL, they have a 10-second runoff for something like that so that would have made it even worse for AZ.

It did, but they called TO immediately. The booth talk was whether they'd take a shot at a TD or kick the Fg with 7 ticks left. And then came the review. It wasn't like the clock and play weren't on the screen and zona had the TO ready to use, so maybe another 1-2 ticks come off.

Even so, at least one shot at a TD. Not that it's gonna matter lol...

 

[psute]

Pac 12 refs...