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The former NFL referee, Terry Mcaulay, was not happy with the way in which university football referees used the new rule of injuries in Georgia Tech’s victory over Colorado on Friday night.
Mcaulay pointed out a crucial decision with remaining 2:34 in the fourth quarter. The yellow jackets and buffalo were tied to 20 each. A Georgia Tech player fell with an injury and the medical staff went to the field to see it. However, Georgia Tech was charged one of his three waiting times due to unemployment in play.
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Georgia Tech chief coach Brent Key verifies the clock at the end of the second half of a University Soccer match of the NCAA against Colorado, on Friday, August 29, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
The NCAA made a point to take energetic measures against players pretending injuries. If a player in the field is presented as injured after the ball is seen for the next play, that player’s team will be charged waiting time. If the team does not have remaining time, a penalty will be evaluated due to the 5 -yard game to the team.
In this case, Mcaulay did not agree with the officials of the Big 12 conference.
“The Big 12 doubles to be ridiculously exaggerated with respect to the new rule of injuries. Again, this player clearly injured at the end of the play, and yet the offensive was still accused of,” he wrote in X.
The Campo de Colorado Marshal, Kaidon Salter, seeks the complement in the second half of a University football match of the NCAA against Georgia Tech, on Friday, August 29, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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“What worsens it, the repetition official can communicate with the field on the moment of the injury and somehow did not observe that it was long before the ball was seen.”
Mcaulay made the same point during the game last weekend between Kansas State and Iowa State.
“We already have an example of why I expressed concern that this rule would unfairly penalize a team that did nothing bad. This player is clearly injured and, nevertheless, because it fell after the ball was seen, they were charged a waiting time,” he wrote. “Worse yet, it seems that he was demonstrating that he was injured before the ball was seen.
“This is not a good rule.”
Georgia Tech won the game, 27-20.
Fans congratulate Georgia Tech players after they defeated Colorado in a University Soccer match in the NCAA, on Friday, August 29, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
The NCAA Soccer Rules Committee pointed to the players to pretend injuries to stop the game of the game. In addition, a player must sit a play even if the team has a waiting time and cannot return until a medical professional approves it.
