Aggie Apotheosis said:Gyles Marrett said:
Just a general football fan observation. I guess I have been giving the football intelligence of the average fan way too much credit. I suppose this could be said for many things in life and voices online, but the last week after the Texas game has made me realize how completely clueless so many are on rules of the game. Stretching far beyond targeting...what is a catch/what isn't, game clock operation, intentional grounding etc.
and it never fails the loudest most outspoken views are majority factually incorrect that if they knew how to use basic operation of the google machine they'd realize they are wrong.
The first several days I brushed it off as bias. I can get not wanting to admit you got a break, or going over the top claiming you're team was screwed, we've all been there...but starting to realize there are a large number of fans that have absolutely no idea about many of the rules of the game lol.
In fairness, the targeting rule is pretty vaguely written, subject to subjective interpretation, and in my opinion defies simple physics.
The issue with targeting is the inconsistency. The Taaffe hit is called and upheld 75% of time.
If Aggies were honest with themselves and that play was two generic teams, we'd always not want that play resulting in player ejection.
I'd tighten up the targeting defintion and had a flagrant 1 and 2 aspect.
2 gets you the foul plus ejection.