Frank Rossi
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Attorney in NYS. Adj. Law Prof. at UMiami. @D3FBHuddle Co-Host. Flag f'ball ref. Mayor of the Village of Ballston Spa, NY since 4/2022.
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3:52 3rd: Targeting on Falcon Football overruled as not being with the crown of the helmet. You make the call here. From this angle, it does look like the crown was involved. Bay Harvey is OK on the sideline. Johns Hopkins Football trails 41-34. In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi42,054 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
On 4th & Goal from the half-yard line, Josh Ehrlich barely makes it to the goal line, but it is TD Susquehanna Football for a 24-21 lead over Bethel Football. There are 35.8 seconds left after the kickoff, and Bethel has no timeouts from their 27. In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi71,200 просмотров • 1 год назад
We will have a new National Champion this season. Zac Boyes comes up short of the Springfield Football 1 on 4th Down, and Drew Heenan kneels down in victory formation to send Springfield to the Quarterfinals, 40-28 over SUNY Cortland Football. In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi69,055 просмотров • 1 год назад
A number of you have asked about the call at the end of the 1st Half of the Bethel Football game at NCC Football in which there was a potential fumble/TD wiped off the board for Bethel that eventually led to no score by the Royals. The full play and a breakdown of issues with the call are in the video below. To be clear, though: 1) It appears that the receiver did not possess the ball at or past the NCC 8, which was needed for the 1st Down (the officials gave the ball to Bethel at the 8 after the overturn, awarding a 1st down). 2) It seems like the wing official was marking forward progress but may not have blown his whistle. It is unclear how he affected the overturn decision in the first place. What is clear is that the officials on the field awarded a fumble and TD, meaning they did not rule forward progress had been stopped. As a result, this aspect of the play is NOT reviewable by rule, as it is a judgment call in real time. 3) No TD should have been awarded before the review in the first place, as the ball clearly was fumbled to the lineman, and fumbles on 4th down in college football can only be advanced by the fumbling player. The ball would have been marked at the spot of the fumble in that case. 4) The officials missed a clear Roughing the Passer call, as the NCC defender went for the Bethel QB's legs while he was in his passing stance. This would have been a half-the-distance and automatic-first-down foul. If this play was called correctly in the first place, it should have been called dead with forward progress stopped at the 8 1/2 yard line and the Roughing foul pushing the ball to the 4 1/4 yard line, 1st & Goal Bethel, with the clock stopped due to penalty. No matter what, though, the Roughing penalty would have ensured Bethel had the ball closer to the goal with 16 seconds left (when forward progress stoppage should have been called). In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi28,420 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
A number of people have reached out to us on In The (D3FB) Huddle to understand whether or not the “incomplete pass” call that led to an Alma College Football OT game-winning TD vs. Hope College Football was the right call. It was not, and I explain why in-depth here. #d3fb
Frank Rossi32,982 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
The emotions of Bethel Football Head Coach Mike Mike McElroy were clear during the postgame press conference — heartened by his team’s fight, but frustrated by the way the end of the game was handled. Here he is in his own words after Susquehanna Football won 24-21. In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi51,890 просмотров • 1 год назад
The kicking unit rushed onto the field for 𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗣𝗛-𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 to kick the game-winning FG - Kyle Ihle was good from 34, just tucking it in over the left upright. The final Johns Hopkins Football attempt fails, & the celebration begins. RMC defeats JHU, 39-36, in an epic #d3fb Quarterfinal.
Frank Rossi69,141 просмотров • 2 лет назад
I’ve said it before to In The (D3FB) Huddle, and I’ll say it again to everyone - Jerheme Urban is one of the top coaches in the country at ANY level. Trinity University Football shouldn’t have even been a visit for me in the #d3fb Playoffs because they by all rights shouldn’t have been here in the first place. After the loss to Centre, they were done this season, except Coach Urban and his staff and team leaders decided to make sure the youth would get maturity this year despite the bad start. And somehow, he coached this group to another playoff berth. If you can’t appreciate how amazing this run was for Trinity, you don’t understand football — period. In this video, Coach Urban goes out of his way to thank us for the coverage of a tremendous game, and I share my thoughts on the 2024 Tigers’ run. Once again, I wasn’t let down by my visit to San Antonio — thanks to EVERYONE that made it special once again.
Frank Rossi40,944 просмотров • 1 год назад
Postgame In The (D3FB) Huddle Interviews (AMCAT Football After Their 35-28 W at Plymouth St.), with Fr. QB Niko Boyce, Fr. WR Ka'Marion Thomas (Ka’Marion(kam)Thomas), So. DB Jihad brown, So. LB Jaiquan Torrence, & Head Tanner Kingsley. Anna Maria College Athletics #d3fb
Frank Rossi21,123 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
“IS IT OVER?!” That’s what AMCAT Football coaches asked the officials when Plymouth State FB, with :09 left, completed a long pass near the endzone, but failed to get in — as the clock expired. Anna Maria wins the game, 35-28, and has to hope for PSU to knock off Framingham State later this season to force a potential tiebreaker as things stand now. In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi17,025 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
![The targeting foul against Zack Orr of NCC Football has been overturned, and he will be eligible to start in Saturday's #d3fb National Semifinal vs. Susquehanna Football at 3:30pm EST / 2:30pm CST. I spoke with Steve Shaw, the NCAA's National Coordinator of Officials, about the overturn this morning. Note that the provision in question is whether or not Springfield Football QB Drew Heenan qualified under the rules as a "defenseless player," as the following is one such definition in the NCAA Football Rulebook: "A ball carrier already in the grasp of an opponent and whose forward progress has been stopped." If a defenseless player is hit in the neck or head region by an opponent, then targeting is a proper call under the rules. Steve said: “We’re very clear that he's not defenseless until he is down. And if you go back and look at the video on the play…he's wrapped up and he's going down. And the contact is with [the] runner just as he's going to the ground. So he really has not transitioned to a defenseless player yet. You know, you can make the argument that, well, if he's wrapped up, he's defenseless and he can't really defend himself. But from a replay perspective, we needed a bright line that that was not a judgment, but a bright line. And that is, [he] has to be down, considered down before he's defenseless….He's just beginning to go down and be down. And so we wouldn't consider him down at the time that he's hit. And there's no crown of the helmet involved. The helmet is clearly to the side. And so, from a replay perspective, rules are very clear. You've got to be able to confirm all aspects of targeting for it to be targeting. You couldn't confirm that he was down and then hit. So we didn't give him defenseless status....And that's why the targeting was overturned.” Steve also taught me about something that is important. While regular replay reviews can come out as "confirmed," "overturned," or "stands" (which means that there is not conclusive evidence to overturn, but there isn't a full confirmation of the original call either), targeting calls do not have a "stands" option when they are reviewed. In other words, they are viewed anew and either every element necessary for targeting must be confirmed, or it is overturned. Think of it as being innocent until proven guilty in the review process for targeting. In this case, he was clear to underscore that the elements could have been argued to have existed, but it would have, at best, been a "call stands" decision, which is not sufficient to uphold a targeting call. Steve also expressed the hopes that the instant replay model that has been developed and used in Division 2 will become more utilized in Division 3, related to more-universal instant replay using a coaches' challenge approach (except for targeting), much like we saw in the Centennial Conference this year. He understands the challenges, but he also feels that having two HD camera angles plus the normal web stream (basically at least three cameras) is sufficient to embrace the needs of instant replay. He is not in favor of a D1 type of replay at the lower levels because of the desire to not have constant game interruptions and more technological challenges at the lower levels than we see at D1 -- he stressed his support of a coaches' challenge system in our conversation multiple times. In The (D3FB) Huddle and I give thanks to Steve for his transparency, which is always on display in the CFO training videos he releases on YouTube. I always learn something when I watch his videos, and today was no different in our conversation.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1869083747989033032/ext_tw_video_thumb/1869077699739738112/pu/img/lKNKi4pravXtVqn6.jpg)
The targeting foul against Zack Orr of NCC Football has been overturned, and he will be eligible to start in Saturday's #d3fb National Semifinal vs. Susquehanna Football at 3:30pm EST / 2:30pm CST. I spoke with Steve Shaw, the NCAA's National Coordinator of Officials, about the overturn this morning. Note that the provision in question is whether or not Springfield Football QB Drew Heenan qualified under the rules as a "defenseless player," as the following is one such definition in the NCAA Football Rulebook: "A ball carrier already in the grasp of an opponent and whose forward progress has been stopped." If a defenseless player is hit in the neck or head region by an opponent, then targeting is a proper call under the rules. Steve said: “We’re very clear that he's not defenseless until he is down. And if you go back and look at the video on the play…he's wrapped up and he's going down. And the contact is with [the] runner just as he's going to the ground. So he really has not transitioned to a defenseless player yet. You know, you can make the argument that, well, if he's wrapped up, he's defenseless and he can't really defend himself. But from a replay perspective, we needed a bright line that that was not a judgment, but a bright line. And that is, [he] has to be down, considered down before he's defenseless….He's just beginning to go down and be down. And so we wouldn't consider him down at the time that he's hit. And there's no crown of the helmet involved. The helmet is clearly to the side. And so, from a replay perspective, rules are very clear. You've got to be able to confirm all aspects of targeting for it to be targeting. You couldn't confirm that he was down and then hit. So we didn't give him defenseless status....And that's why the targeting was overturned.” Steve also taught me about something that is important. While regular replay reviews can come out as "confirmed," "overturned," or "stands" (which means that there is not conclusive evidence to overturn, but there isn't a full confirmation of the original call either), targeting calls do not have a "stands" option when they are reviewed. In other words, they are viewed anew and either every element necessary for targeting must be confirmed, or it is overturned. Think of it as being innocent until proven guilty in the review process for targeting. In this case, he was clear to underscore that the elements could have been argued to have existed, but it would have, at best, been a "call stands" decision, which is not sufficient to uphold a targeting call. Steve also expressed the hopes that the instant replay model that has been developed and used in Division 2 will become more utilized in Division 3, related to more-universal instant replay using a coaches' challenge approach (except for targeting), much like we saw in the Centennial Conference this year. He understands the challenges, but he also feels that having two HD camera angles plus the normal web stream (basically at least three cameras) is sufficient to embrace the needs of instant replay. He is not in favor of a D1 type of replay at the lower levels because of the desire to not have constant game interruptions and more technological challenges at the lower levels than we see at D1 -- he stressed his support of a coaches' challenge system in our conversation multiple times. In The (D3FB) Huddle and I give thanks to Steve for his transparency, which is always on display in the CFO training videos he releases on YouTube. I always learn something when I watch his videos, and today was no different in our conversation.
Frank Rossi29,464 просмотров • 1 год назад
0:45 4th: Johns Hopkins Football 41 Falcon Football 48 In The (D3FB) Huddle #d3fb
Frank Rossi12,640 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад