Florida fans crying about the officials.

[reflaine]

Believe it or not “holding” or grabbing is not against the rules. It’s what or how you hold that can make it a violation. Every lineman will grasp a jersey on every play and that is well within the rules. (Inside the pass is a prime example).

One basic officiating of a hold “if your inside the feet, then they can’t cheat”. This means if lineman is “squared up” with defender directly in front of a hold will not he called. (This is what allows a pancake block like bunchie had last night. His hands were outside the frame, but defender was squared inside of his feet thus making it a legal block. The otherwise is if the defender is outside of the feet and making a move around, the offense can’t restrict them from that move. “ If they are out outside the feet, lineman is beat”. This means a grab causes an effect to the defender “winning the play” and keeps him from making a play on ball. And the hold gave neutralized the defenders advantage and draws a penelty.

Here is part of article that explains different type of holds.


“Holding is easily the most controversial call in football. Fans see holding on every play, then wonder why the referees don't call it. If you take into account the point of attack, and the concepts of advantages and disadvantages, it's easier to .

There are six different types of offensive holding.

Tackling a player - self-explanatory.

Takedown - the best example is an offensive lineman who has a defensive lineman at the shoulders, then does a body twist to take the defender to the ground or throw him off balance.

Pullover - The best example is that of a defensive bull rush which knocks the offensive player down and the offensive lineman pulls defensive down on top of him.

Hook and Restrict - the offensive player gets beat to the outside and sticks his arm out or uses an arm bar to restrict a defensive player.

Grab and Restrict - self-explanatory

Jerk and Restrict - instead of moving feet, pulling the defender around with the hands.

Another key to remember - holding is usually not called on double teams. The exception is when a defender beats a double team and gets held. Usually these are hook and restrict or grab and restrict holds.”

 

[BoulderCat]

Cry me a river. UK kicked your a$$, and you know it Deal with it already.

 

[Blueaz]

LOL, I said a couple of times in the game thread that Florida was getting away with a lot of holding. So it goes both ways. Officials could literally throw a flag for holding on every play.

65 was a holding machine and would rock back a click, just before the snap, on most pass plays

 

[KyCatFan]

The holding calls are a complete joke and my biggest complaint about football. I'm not sure what can be done about it, but if they followed the letter of the rule and had 11 officials on the field, holding would be called 20-30 times in every college and nfl game. The best you can hope for is some kind of consistency. Obviously, Florida benefited from the officials a lot more than UK.

How about make linemen wear something like boxing gloves? Then the only way they can really hold is in a bear hug. Something similar to this.

 

[gossie21]

You mean the way just about every O-line does in every game?

For what little it is worth, I thought that FG was barely in.

Peace

That’s not the least bit surprising.

 

[Aike]

Eh, can't blame them for trying to find excuses. We all do it. We were winning and going nuts about the officials most of the game.

It appears that you may have more patience with fans of other teams than you do with our own.

 

[zannmann]

The missed FG is insignificant, we beat them by 11 and were up by 5 before the final TD. FG is only worth 3.

 

[Kooky Kats]

 

[Bank Cat]

Lonnie Johnson got called for a pass interference penalty that was criminally bad. He and the receiver were in stride and the literally just slapped hands...

 

[Bluegrasscard]

The pass interference call against UK late in the game should be enough to blunt any talk of favoritism toward UK.

The FG was definitely outside the uprights in flight and was definitely hooking back in. So it looks good by where it hit the net but it was well outside on the way there.

The 2x amount of penalty yards also blunts an argument of bias.

Congratulations on great win.