I came across this on Twitter cannot stop watching this play...
Spots center not top 10 and Top 10???? I saved the game with the tackle, teammate ran the opposite way off the interception🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️😂😂@BleacherReport @SportsCenter @houseofhighligh @overtime @ScottVanPeezy @RandyMoss pic.twitter.com/DjSSFy2hTf— Kha'Ron Thrower4 (@SGAndre1) October 12, 2019
There is so much going on here:
1) His teammate makes a safety saving tackle
2) The coach in the black shirt losing his mind.
3) The player that ran the wrong way did so by running down the same sideline that his team is on.
4) He would have had a pick 6.
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I saw something like this happen back in middle or high school. Our guy intercepts the ball and runs it all the way to the wrong end zone where he gets tackled and fumbles the ball. The other team jumps on it and gets a touchdown, their only score of the game.
Player's name was Ronte, and he probably thought the crowd was cheering his name instead of yelling "WRONG WAY!"
top 10 and not top 10 in the same play, you say?
Can't say that #2 didn't give it his all.
Gotta hit the weights and cafeteria harder.
Clearly not enough turkey bacon
Still not as bad as what rmfw did to the ncstate defender
the play for reference. filmed with a soggy potato
I miss RMFW.
I miss real running backs 😓
Then you might be interested in this: A PSU alum coworker who loves that team is saying that Ricky Slade has already been passed up on the depth chart by a few younger guys, Noah Cain in particular. He's reading the tea leaves and thinking that Slade might end up in the transfer portal. It's just his opinion, but he's got a point.
Yep, and doesn't help the situation with Devyn Ford getting some snaps too.
I straight up asked another guy today whether he thought Slade would transfer and he was unequivocal in saying that yeah, he thought Slade would end up in the portal after this season.
Still only speculation from #notsauces but I'm starting to get hopeful!
Ricky pls
Epic!
Is the ref marking him down short of the goal line?
Yeah it looks like the ref was going with a forward progress call
So forward progress before he picked up the defender and carried him into the end zone with the ball.
Does everybody else on defense hate that guy? It took 2-3 days for another defender to even show up.
This was Musselman High School in Bunker Hill, WV. I work with a lot people from that area and some that was at that game. They said there was a huge fight after that play and 3 Musselmen players got ejected.
...but why is the skinny spectator in the background flexing like he did something. So much to see by not watching the ball in these clips.
Best part is how he starts slapping the ground thinking he almost scored still not knowing his teammate tackled him.
I wish there was audio to this.
And since - going with the thread theme - this would have been an SC Top 10 had he made it, Joey Slye's Fair Catch Kick is deserving of a watch.
via Deadspin - the Fair Catch Kick
Pretty sure the Panthers have a play called Let's see if Joey can do it.
They took that from Beamer's playbook.
Me, and everyone in the stadium...
Damn that would have been a 60 yard FG and he had at least 10 yards clearance
On a normal field goal, when you have to worry about the block, you only take two steps before kicking. If you can take a couple extra steps, you can kick it a lot farther. Also, I imagine not having the defense in your face alleviates some of the pressure.
Nah he still only took two steps back for this one
it's not the run-up, it's the trajectory. you can kick a lot further when you don't have to worry about getting it up and over the line of scrimmage and when you're kicking off a tee
I'm not seeing a tee... and unless it's windy, why would there be a holder if there is one? But yes, you can hit at a lower trajectory and not having the defense charging at you makes it a little less stressful. Although I can't imagine that bothers Joey
might not be a tee in that (it's hard to tell, I had assumed there was), but it's more like a kickoff than it is a field goal try just because of not having to get it up and over OL/DL
There's no tee. That's part of the rule.
Correct. It must be either place kicked (without a tee) or drop kicked.
Is this allowed in college football?
I think so. It took me a while to dissect the rules.
For anyone wandering: After a fair caught punt, the receiving team has the option to "free kick" from the spot of the fair catch on the very next play. The defense in turn has to line up 10 yards off the spot. No person besides the kicker on either team can move until the ball is kicked.
From the Twitter replies:
Ah good to know, Thanks! Gotta love the obscure rules, right?
No. I believe it used to be but was removed a while back. Same thing at the high school level. It's a leftover from football's rugby roots.
Interestingly, college is the only place the A-11 offense is still legal, albeit situationally.
Never heard of A-11 either, lol. I'd be curious how many random rules/plays/loopholes we can come up with. Apparently Oregon State successfully recovered an onside dropkick a couple weeks ago against UCLA, which I also didn't know was a thing.
TIL French's alma mater, Emory & Henry, has a formation named after it. Steve Spurrier used it some at USCjr and UF and named it. With Steve being from Johnson City, it all makes sense.
The A-11 offense abuses the scrimmage kick exception, which is intended to be used for punts.
All 11 players on offense wear numbers that make them eligible to receive a pass, including the center. Typical personnel are a C, 2 TE's, 6 WR's, and 2 QB's. Everyone except the C and QB's lines up 2 yards off the ball. The QB's line up 7 yards deep in the backfield. 1 second before the ball is snapped to one of the QB's, 6 players step up to the line of scrimmage. The interior 5 players on the line (who may be C, TE's, WR, etc.) essentially become OL and aren't eligible for a pass on that play.
It's chaos to defend for multiple reasons. First, the defense only has 1 second to figure out who's actually eligible, and it typically changes each play. You frequently end up with your best CB standing at the LOS "covering" a player who is essentially an OL. Also, most teams don't have 6 DB's available to defend all the WR's that are on the field at the same time.
It was used in HS for a few years in the late 00's before it was banned, but it's still legal in the NCAA "if a kick might reasonably be attempted."
If he made that, he'd be a legend in Carolina.
I read the descriptions 5 times then had to watch the video to get it. Describing the events in reverse order really messed me up. . '1. Saved a safety 2. Ran it the wrong way' isn't quite how it went... 😂
That's still a good play (on the interceptor's part) if his team has a lead and want's to milk the clock.