When will the NCAA finally drop the hammer on this program?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon...balls/1691303/
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When will the NCAA finally drop the hammer on this program?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon...balls/1691303/
It will not happen - too many fans and too large of a media market. They will not cut their own financial throat or do anything that would rock the boat when the conferences are very nearly to a point where they may soon tell the NCAA to KISS THIS!
Having been an equipment manager, I can tell you that no manager can pull off what that story is talking about alone. When the refs take the game balls from the managers and test them for proper pressure, they keep the balls till they walk to the field and hand them off to the ballboys and the head equipment managers for each team. Ballboys hold the balls for both teams, so unless the USC mgr could tell which was a USC ball in the bag he was holding...with out seeing them...and use a needle to let some air out while the other refs were not watching, the balls in question were never checked by the refs and were put into the gameball bag by someone else who copied the ref's mark on the official gameballs.
The student equipment manager is probably the scapegoat in this story...
Thats just too many people touching on the Ducks balls.......smhQuote:
Originally Posted by Poisso3
Aren't the balls each school uses marked with that school's logo?
Yes. This has Lane Kiffin (sp?) written all over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
I can sort of understand Kiffin and USC feeling the need to cheat against Oregon, but does anyone really need to cheat in order to beat Colorado? Really???
I suddenly had a stray thought about ball protection and Trojans..... but I won't go there.
That's correct. Additionally, the head ref will mark each ball designated as a game ball that way it can be identified when an illegal ball is put into play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
Oh, man. This thread is so hard to reply to without it sounding like you are saying something really dumb, but....
How did they think they were going to get away with this. The refs handle the balls on every play. Did they not think they would know what a properly inflated football feels like?
There, I've tee'd it up for you...let's hear about refs handling balls. :laugh:
I just have a hard time believing that student manager, of his own volition, with no instruction or previous conversation among coaches or superiors, would take this upon himself to do. Just doesn't add up.
Nuts, just like all conspiracy theory. Refs and players know what a properly inflated ball feels like. Many of you played, how does a thread like this get started?Quote:
Originally Posted by techfreak
I thought the refs kept a check on the balls during the game. It would be real easy to deflate a ball by a player or manager on the sideline during the game.
Don, it is not as easy as you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by DONW