Interception, Reception, or Simultaneous Catch?

[SUPERCOACH]

Has anyone been listening to PF this afternoon?

Got my grandson this afternoon. We are watching Mickey Mouse. Same thing. JK. What's going on with PF?

[SUPERCOACH]

[SUPERCOACH]

MW has two hands on the ball and clearly has possession.

[SUPERCOACH]

MW clearly has possession.  LSU does not.

[SUPERCOACH]

Another one.

[SUPERCOACH]

This one has MW on the ground with possession of the ball.  Play over.

[BAMAWV]

MW has two hands on the ball and clearly has possession.

Then blown dead when his back hit the ground. Bama ball on the 1. Boom. TD. See ya bye, LSU.

[SUPERCOACH]

I was just watching ESPNU and they showed a poll where 60% of the country would like to see a rematch.  I was surprised by that.

[2Stater]

MW has two hands on the ball and clearly has possession.

Then blown dead when his back hit the ground. Bama ball on the 1. Boom. TD. See ya bye, LSU.

Dayum scrate!

[cbbama99]

I was just watching ESPNU and they showed a poll where 60% of the country would like to see a rematch.  I was surprised by that.

I think the people should be heard. 

[SUPERCOACH]

This one has MW on the ground with possession of the ball.  Play over.

NCAA Playing Rule 2-4-1 (a):
A player "gains possession" when he secures the ball firmly by holding or controlling it while contacting the ground inbounds.The ball is then in player possession.

[MLB10]

those pics make my stomach turn.

[Reelvalue]

THEANKS COACHFOR THE PHOTOS..THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MY EYES WITNESSED FROM MY NEARBY SEATS..THE REF SHOULD BE TARRED AND FEATHERED!!

[XBAMA]

shot from the other side






away from the play

[SUPERCOACH]

I have watched that play over and over dozens of times.  Here is what I saw:

1.  M. Williams is wide open almost immediately.
2.  The receiver (B. Gibson) lined up in the slot on the strong side ran his route across the field.  The umpire was in the way and he went behind him, taking the DB deeper.  He probably should have gone in front of the umpire.  The umpire may have even picked the DB if he had done that.
3.  LSU overloaded the weak side and had guys running free toward Maze.  This was to be expected considering we only had two guys on the line on that side, and one of them was M. Williams running a pass route.  Maze had to get rid of the ball in a hurry.
4.  M. Williams was so wide open that Maze floated it out there to give him plenty of time to get under it and make the catch.  He was leaning backwards as he made the throw.  He put way too much air under the ball.
5.  In spite of this, the DB still gets there a split second late.  M. Williams catches the ball with BOTH hands.
6.  He controls the ball with both hands all the way to the ground.  It looks like it is being bobbled, but he has both hands on it securely.  The reason it looked bobbled was because the DB got his hands on the ball and was trying to jerk it away.  M. Williams kept both hands firmly on the ball through out the fall, although his hands were jostled around as the DB pulled on the ball.
7.  If M. Williams did not have the ball securely in both hands, the DB would have ripped it out.  The DB only had one hand in there initially and was trying to pull it out, but M. Williams had a firm grip and did not let him.
8.  M. Williams hits the ground on his back, and still has full control of the ball in both hands.  Photos taken by the press show him on his back with both hands firmly gripping the ball.  Sometime while they are on the ground the DB manages to get his other hand in there and takes the ball away as M. Williams is trying to get up.
9.  Neither the side judge nor the field judge make a ruling initially.  Both of them run in to mark the spot though like it was a reception.  Then the back judge comes running up from the end zone and rules it as an interception.  The back judge that makes the call is standing somewhere near the goal post, and from that angle the DB shields him from the ball.  He sees the DB's back, then sees the DB pop up with the ball.  He can't see M. Williams control the ball all the way to the ground.

I don't blame the refs, it is just one of those plays where it was hard to tell what happened.  It didn't become obvious to me until after the game was over after I had a chance to watch the play frame by frame and see the images taken by the photographers.  They got the call wrong, but it was an honest mistake.

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