that is pretty funny. rooting against getting the td so you don't have to play d. what if stanford did somehow stop the next few plays. or what if time ran out if the back was stopped in the backfield on the next play or 2. . you have to take the td when it is there.
Wow. So they conspired to give a TD to go ahead with 30 seconds left, FOR STANFORD's BENEFIT? Again, wow.
Yeah, like we've never been stopped on the goal line before, or never fumbled on the opponent's one yard line.
I can't tell, are you being serious with this conspiracy theory, or is this tongue in cheek?
If it was an obvious non-TD it would have been overturned. You could not see definitively where the ball was when Kaiser's butt hit the ground, and obviously the replay official couldn't see it either. If there would have been a replay shooting down the goal line from the other side, maybe it would have been more definitive. But there was no evidence to overturn the TD call.
I must admit it is rather far fetched but I was also wondering why there was no scoring play review when the Stanford back was stopped in mid air on the goal line. I also thought for sure that the refs would overturn Kizers' t.d. hmmmm?[smile]
Didn't nd have a fumble near the goal line against sc a few years ago? And sc brought it back for a td? The last drive by ND was brilliant. It chewed up a ton of clock. I thought Stanford would have called more timeouts to preserve more clock, but they did not. I thought the clock management was really good by ND. Then ND picked up that final key first down and then scored. ND should have played man to man on their wr's and left 3 guys deep. Then ND could have made the tackle immediately even if a ball was completed. No idea how stanford had a guy running free through a zone of 7 players. Well designed play by Stanford or bad concept by ND.
I think the face mask was inadvertent. Just bad luck. It was a powerful face mask as it caused hogan to fumble. I thought the real reason for the loss was the fact t hat Stanford kept marching up and down the field with their offense. ND could not stop them. Stanford has one of the best oline's in the nation. And if you stack the box they have a pretty good passing game too. But you can score on Stanford. They play 4 down linemen. And drop the rest of their players deep. Then they have to play tighter coverage when you get inside the 20 and are able to hold team's to field goals. Do you see how deep they play their corners and safeties. Funny thing is, they still gave up the big plays. Their defense is so spread out that that when a nd player got a crease, he was gone. NDF has some really fast players. Pretty impressive.
