Great move by the Wisconsin coach. And agreed with the Penn State crying…after just about every game there has been tears about something. Weis was classless for running the fake punt, Michigan classless for hitting their quarterback hard, Wisconsin classless for taking advantage of a dumb rule and also hitting their coach out of bounds (Iike that was intention). Not to mention the near constant complaining about calls not going in their favor and how the Big 10 is out to get them.

Quoth I:

The yardage penalty is immaterial, because they’ll continue to be offsides

Hence the reason it falls under Rule 3-4 – they’re attempting to consume clock by committing a penalty. The way they’re committing the penalty actually allows them to commit it over, and over.

Officials are supposed to deal with it when a team attempts to consume clock like that. It’s the same thing as if a team would constantly commit penalties in order to stop the clock.

Did I miss something? It looks pretty clear to me that Wisc. was penalized the standard 5-yards (when not offset by PSU’s holding). Your point doesn’t hold water, Pat.

Yeah, it sucked. Yeah, it’s unfortunate for you. But the rest of the world loves it!

You would too, if you weren’t on the receiving end.

As I said above, spiking the ball is in the freaking rulebooks as not intentional grounding, and not illegal.

or because it’s a coach knowingly doing something illegal to gain advantage? In that case, all knowingly illegal penalties committed frequently are included.

It’s because it’s a coach knowingly doing something illegal because there is no punishment, whatsoever. The yardage penalty is immaterial because they’ll continue to be offsides until there’s no time left, at which point they’ll squib it.

The only thing that even comes remotely close is taking a delay of game to move into better punting position. And that’s such a ridiculously minor thing compared to running a completely illegal play to eliminate almost half a minute from the clock.

What makes it “unfair” is that Wisconsin’s committing an illegal action for which there is no compensation to Penn State. It’s a perfect example of something that should fall under Rule 3-4. It should’ve been called.

Holding to prevent a sack, pass interference to prevent a touchdown: those are perfectly fair actions because the team committing the penalty ends up in a worse situation than they were before the play started. This isn’t the case here.

Penalty: Repeal 3-2-5(e) at the conclusion of the 2006 season and force a boot up the ass of every committee member that voted in favor of the rule. Not to mention 15-yds and rekick of the ball.

Gary Danielson came over to CBS from ABC after Todd Blackledge left CBS for the 7:45est ESPN night game. No one knows was Ron Franklin did to get banished from that ESPN slot, but it is rumored that the old man’s voice and abilities were irresistible to network executives’ wives and daughters. I also heard that he had some not so kind opinions of The Playmakers and Herbstreit, involving words like “more retarded than autism ward at St. Jude’s” and “more fucked than the glory hole at the Male Box in San Francisco”

As a Citadel graduate, I must defend my fellow alum Paul Maguire. You have to admit, he’s a ton better without Joe T. And if you think MNF sucks, then it’s not too difficult to figure out why.

Plus, I think the analyst is Griese, not Danielson. Both are very good.

As for the coaching tactics, I applaud the effort to exploit the insane rule change. I do not consider it to be unsportsmanlike at all. The clowns who created the rule should have seen this coming.

Also, J-Skool, good to know you think Scoop should be free as well.

Whats to prevent the Wisconsin guys from being 30 yards offsides instead of just 10? And I like how they act all tough after they make the tackle; the whole damn kick off team was in a full sprint 15 yards from the return man when he caught the ball. Yeah, that’s not dangerous. What’s next, get a second half lead and then just repeat this debacle for 3 hours?