What happened to Bossier City Parkway? I thought they were in the championship game.
What happened to Bossier City Parkway? I thought they were in the championship game.
I was simply providing visual evidence of the missed call on Rummel's game-winning touchdown.
The refs are awful. Both ways.
The onside kick call was definitely the worst of the game. The Byrd "receiver" was blocking on the play and wasn't even within 5 yards of the football. He either didn't realize Rummel did an onside kick, or he thought somebody else was gonna catch the football. That was the most obvious bad call of the game.
Watching the "incomplete forward pass" live, it looked like a Byrd fumble to me, but I had a bad angle on it. I was in so much shock that they ruled incomplete pass instead of fumble that I missed the replay.
However, I did have a perfect view of Byrd's fumble on the 3-yard line in the first quarter. I thought it should have been ruled forward progress. Rummel was pushing the Byrd RB backwards when they stripped him.
The Byrd fans didn't see the Byrd kid step out of bounds because that was on the Rummel sideline. I had no clue about that until I read this thread. It doesn't surprise me that the ref missed that one because it would have been the same line judge who missed Rummel's fumble into the end zone.
I also didn't understand the "illegal touching" penalty that resulted in a turnover on downs instead of a first down for Byrd at the end. On the jumbotron they just circled the QB. The refs gathered for about two minutes trying to figure it out and then gave no explanation.
It's really sad that the refs made so many bad calls in a game of that magnitude. It sucks because it may be another 50 years before Byrd gets another chance at a state title. Even with all the bad calls, Byrd can only blame themselves with four fumbles and the longer snapper botching the snaps on the first two PATs.
Looked to me like the QB panicked and just threw in the direction of an "open" same-colored jersey. The center, #51, was indeed open because no Rummel defender was trying to cover him in a pass pattern . #51 probably figured, well, if I don't catch this pass and get the 1st down, the ball goes over on downs anyway. Maybe he thought no one would notice which position he played....
Truthfully, as it was happening, my first thought was #51 had checked in as a "tackle-eligible" and Rummel's defense had just missed it. But, he was knocked out of bounds short of the yard to make to get the 1st anyway. I hadn't noticed that #51 had started the play in his usual position, center. Not until they showed the replay and I said, "there is no such thing as a center-eligible!" The refs actually got that call right. And given as bad as that crew was (is), that was no small feat.
How did a public school get in the private school playoffs?
from lhsaa
a select admission school is a public or non-public school that has an admission policy to select the students who attend the school. Earlier this year at the lhsaa’s annual convention, the lhsaa member school principals voted that select admission schools would include all non-public schools, university laboratory schools, magnet schools and dual-curriculum schools that include at least 25% of their enrollment as select admission students who do not live in the designated attendance zone. In addition, charter schools whose charter includes admission requirements for the selection or retention of students are included in the select admission schools’ list–the lhsaa’s executive committee voted last week to remove charter schools that do not have a select admissions policy from the select school category.
Why don't they just give every school a trophy and save the expense of having playoffs?
They did didnt they?
Everbody knows Acadiana High is the real state champ.
Acadiana and Parkway state championship game on Cox (Comcast 724) now.
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