Sideline warning

[jsb29 0]

Clemson got a sideline warning the other night.  I thought they were done with stopping the game and giving a conventional warning, and go straight for the penalty.  Am I wrong about this?

[wap0003 0]

From what I found, as of 2008: Sideline Infraction (Rule 9-1-6). The committee has changed the rule regarding sideline personnel being in the restricted area, which is between the sideline and the coaching box. The former sideline warning has given way to a sideline infraction which carries an immediate yardage penalty. The first two infractions have a five-yard delay of game penalty, and the third and subsequent violations now carry a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.

[Rednilla 5,092]

Wow. How'd that happen?

[ltlgas321 4]

I was yelling from the stands that it should have been a penalty against Clemson.

There is no warning. Now there is an immediate penalty.

[AuburnGrad97 37]

Clemson got a sideline warning the other night.  I thought they were done with stopping the game and giving a conventional warning, and go straight for the penalty.  Am I wrong about this?

I hate to bash officials because it sounds like excuses, but this is the least of the problems with that ACC officiating crew from Saturday night.  They were horrible!!!  Phantom calls, incorrect calls, and it seemed that they were all in Clemson's favor.  It was ridiculous.  Not saying SEC officials would have been better, or that the ACC crew were blatantly biased, but it sure didn't seem the calls were going both ways.

[around4ever 4,136]

The thing that bothered me the most about the officials was that, not one time was there a clock issue when Clemson had the ball.  And yes, the time keepers are part of the official crew, not provided by the home team. 

[tiger mark 0]

Clemson got a sideline warning the other night.  I thought they were done with stopping the game and giving a conventional warning, and go straight for the penalty.  Am I wrong about this?

I hate to bash officials because it sounds like excuses, but this is the least of the problems with that ACC officiating crew from Saturday night.  They were horrible!!!  Phantom calls, incorrect calls, and it seemed that they were all in Clemson's favor.  It was ridiculous.  Not saying SEC officials would have been better, or that the ACC crew were blatantly biased, but it sure didn't seem the calls were going both ways.

I agree that the officiating was terrible.  However I do not agree that all the calls were against Auburn.  On McCalebs TD, our blocker (not sure who it was) was holding so much that the Clemson's jersey almost came out, and this was right in front of an official.  There were enough calss to make you go ummm.  Examples, no review on the kickoff return, sideline warning instead of penalty.  The pass interferrence penalty was very shaky, even though defender did not turn around, he still hit the ball and contact was from both receiver and defender.

Bottom line is a win is a win.  WDE, time to start SC's mid to late year swoon.

[avltiger 0]

At least the call negating the field goal made by Clemson in overtime was correct!

[tiger mark 0]

At least the call negating the field goal made by Clemson in overtime was correct!

^^^^^^^AMEN^^^^^^^

[rdf1 0]

Why do you suppose, When they won the toss, Clemson elected to have ACC officials as opposed to being the home team for the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta in 2012?????  

Besides the "unsual" penalty calls (including sideline warning which IS a 5-yd delay penalty, no warning) I really got incensed when we were on offense at a faster pace and Clemson looked winded, the back judge behind Clemson called a time out, ran 1/2 way to the field judge and back, then field judge resumes play.. thus breaking offensive rythym on Auburn....WHAT WAS THAT???

[BPI 0]

The Zebras tried there best to put a screwjob on us.....Do I even need to mention the touchback ? If the touchback had been called we go up by 8 points and get the ball back.. It would have been over.

[BPI 0]

Correction ....9 points.

[auclong 0]

The Zebras tried there best to put a screwjob on us.....Do I even need to mention the touchback ? If the touchback had been called we go up by 8 points and get the ball back.. It would have been over.

You mean safety I think. A touchback was called.

A safety should have been called as his foot appeared to be on the goal line. According to rule" A safety is when the ball becomes dead out of bounds behind the goal line or becomes dead in the possession of a player on, above or behind his on goal line and the defending the team is responsible for the ball being there. To me he appeared to be on the goal line and us, the defending team kicked the ball to that spot or area. But then the NCAA in its infinite wisdom follows up by saying that" When in question, it is a touchback, not a safety". Thought that was why we had instant replay to get rid of these questions.

[AUBiker77 9]

Will we have SEC officials next year at Clemson?

[aubook56 0]

They did make bad calls however the call in OT saved our tale. If the back judge didn't make the call we loose, if was great to see them huddle together to get the call correct. Agree?

[rollsroyce5 0]

Will we have SEC officials next year at Clemson?

Yep.

[LakeBum 187]

They did make bad calls however the call in OT saved our tale. If the back judge didn't make the call we loose, if was great to see them huddle together to get the call correct. Agree?

It would have gone to 2nd overtime.... who knows who would have won.  If they call off-sides on Auburn, it would not have been a first down and I doubt that Dumbo would have taken the points off the board and gone for it on fourth and 1 in the student section end of the field.

[macus23 24]

A safety is when the ball becomes dead out of bounds behind the goal line or becomes dead in the possession of a player on, above or behind his on goal line and the defending the team is responsible for the ball being there.

The ball never came out of the endzone.  Many people are also mentioning his foot.  His foot has nothing to do with it either, just like on a TD.

The ball MUST completely come out of the endzone, completely breaking the plane of the goal line on the PLAYING FIELD side of the line.  Therefore, in order to be out of the endzone, the backside nose of the football would have to be completely past the field side edge of the goal line.

Going in for a TD, we all know that if just part of the nose of the football crosses the plane, the ball is considered to be in the endzone.  Well coming out, the same principle applies.  If even the smallest part of the ball is across the same goalline plane that is used to determine a TD, then it is considered to be in the endzone.

Since the ball never left the endzone, touchback was the correct call.

[chizhead 618]

Will we have SEC officials next year at Clemson?

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yes, but that doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside....ya'll are fussing about those acc guys and i thought it was the best officiated game we've had....sec refs are horrible on their best day

[Auburn47 0]

Clemson got a sideline warning the other night.  I thought they were done with stopping the game and giving a conventional warning, and go straight for the penalty.  Am I wrong about this?

I hate to bash officials because it sounds like excuses, but this is the least of the problems with that ACC officiating crew from Saturday night.  They were horrible!!!  Phantom calls, incorrect calls, and it seemed that they were all in Clemson's favor.  It was ridiculous.  Not saying SEC officials would have been better, or that the ACC crew were blatantly biased, but it sure didn't seem the calls were going both ways.

The officials was real BAD!

[AUBSC76 0]

They did make bad calls however the call in OT saved our tale. If the back judge didn't make the call we loose, if was great to see them huddle together to get the call correct. Agree?

It would have gone to 2nd overtime.... who knows who would have won.  If they call off-sides on Auburn, it would not have been a first down and I doubt that Dumbo would have taken the points off the board and gone for it on fourth and 1 in the student section end of the field.

I agree with you regarding the touchback.  I agree that the officials were interrupting the rythm that CGM was trying to establish and that two interference calls were really bad, especially the one on Neiko (they got his number wrong, they called it on Mike McNeal), but they also didn't call the holding on McCalebb's TD.  The biggest call was their correction of the initial call of offsides against us to illegal snap on their FG.  The 2nd biggest call they got right was a no-call on Mike McNeal's tackle that injured Kyle Parker.    Go over to the Clemson boards and you'll read innumerable posts that it was "a blatent case of spearing"...

Although Mussberger and Herbsteit couldn't shut up about Kyle Parker's courage in playing through pain, etc. they never once even hinted that it was a cheap shot or a spear because it wasn't.. 

[tigertrax 0]

I don't understand why the NCAA doesn't use neutral officials for all the intersectional and cross conference games.  Why open themselves up to criticism about conference bias with the officials?

[FreeBird 0]

Just remember which SEC coach is in bed with Mike Slive.