Soccer: Ohio State and Wake Forest advance to NCAA title game

[Big Mike]

Did anyone catch the ball going out of bounds on the 1st score by WF? The ref was right there and didn't call anything....later the camera team showed the slow mo and showed the entire ball out of bounds?

[Fyrebyrd]

ya i caught that, but you realize that ref was directly parallel with that ball, he couldnt have made an accurate call to save his soul. either way he was gonna catch hell...one job I will never envy is a touch line referee in soccer...making offsides calls and trying to make those calls is by far the more unenviable task in all of sports.

[Les is More]

for that exact reason is why i still like having humans (refs, umpires, linesman,etc.) calling the game. I hope with all this new technology such as replay, that the human eye is not taken out...

[amckillip]

Playing soccer for years, captain of my HS team. Thats not intentional. It's a dangerous play but definition. But because it's called a dangerous play does not make it intentional. Fyrebird and crew are right, any soccer player has made that same play countless times. This time it had unfortunate consequences. Despite the damage thats done, it also does not justify a red card. Action determines a card, not outcome, thats a typical foul.

[tornado]

Did anyone catch the ball going out of bounds on the 1st score by WF? The ref was right there and didn't call anything....later the camera team showed the slow mo and showed the entire ball out of bounds?

This is sometimes a tough judgement play, since the rule says that if any part of the ball is still over any part of the line, then it is still in play.

We who are used to basketball might sense that it's out of bounds if the ball is touching the grass outside the line.
But since the ball is round, even if it is on the grass outsuide the line, the edge of the ball may still be over the white line, thus still in play.
One of the refs is stationed on the sideline for the purpose of getting the call correct, but again it is a judgement call.

There are even times that a ball is kicked while it is inbounds, and it lands inbounds, but while it is in the air, it bends out of bounds and curves back in.
This play is still out of bounds, and the sideline ref has to use his judgement to make the call while the ball is flying through the air, as to whether the entire ball is outside the "outside plane if the sideline".

[BUBraves06]

Playing soccer for years, captain of my HS team. Thats not intentional. It's a dangerous play but definition. But because it's called a dangerous play does not make it intentional. Fyrebird and crew are right, any soccer player has made that same play countless times. This time it had unfortunate consequences. Despite the damage thats done, it also does not justify a red card. Action determines a card, not outcome, thats a typical foul.

Exaclty. I understand it looked gruesome but that foul warrented no more then a yellow-card.

[Les is More]

Exaclty. I understand it looked gruesome but that foul warrented no more then a yellow-card.

Especially with the magnitude and timing of the foul- 2nd half less than 15 minutes to go