We got hurt with this call during the overtime period.
This is the comment by the Iowa Hawkeyes’ head coach after the Iowa-Rutgers game on Saturday. He is even confused because he is talking about two separate blocks:
I asked a college and high school official who I know and the Cut Block Rule is well new:
"There seems to have been more chop blocking penalties this year through the first four games and that is due to a change in the rules. Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz has something to say about those rules after the game.
“I’d like to address the rule changes they’ve made with cut blocking. One thing I’ve done for a long time is coach the offensive line and they’ve altered the rules and I’m a little befuddle on why. I never saw any data that showed there was an issue there. There didn’t seem to be last year. They changed the rules, and I’m talking about nationally. My concern for this is four weeks, there’s been four different interpretations on a rule. It impacts a game. It potentially could. It certainly did on the first play in the second half.
“My concern is that we have a bunch of officials, I’m sure it’s this way for every conference, I can only speak to the Big Ten. We’ve got a bunch of guys committed to working the game, working it hard, working it well, just like this crew today and we’ve created a set of rules that’s hard to understand. I can tell you I don’t understand them."
The coach above is actually talking about the new Cut Block Rule not Chop Blocking, they are two different animals. Chop blocking is done by two players on one. One goes high the other low. Cut blocks are from the waist down , from the front and done at a 10-2 angle ( steering wheel of car). There are players that are restricted at when they can do it and where on the field it can be done. It can be confusing and it has a lot to do with the tackle box.
This is the comment by the Iowa Hawkeyes’ head coach after the Iowa-Rutgers game on Saturday. He is even confused because he is talking about two separate blocks:
I asked a college and high school official who I know and the Cut Block Rule is well new:
"There seems to have been more chop blocking penalties this year through the first four games and that is due to a change in the rules. Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz has something to say about those rules after the game.
“I’d like to address the rule changes they’ve made with cut blocking. One thing I’ve done for a long time is coach the offensive line and they’ve altered the rules and I’m a little befuddle on why. I never saw any data that showed there was an issue there. There didn’t seem to be last year. They changed the rules, and I’m talking about nationally. My concern for this is four weeks, there’s been four different interpretations on a rule. It impacts a game. It potentially could. It certainly did on the first play in the second half.
“My concern is that we have a bunch of officials, I’m sure it’s this way for every conference, I can only speak to the Big Ten. We’ve got a bunch of guys committed to working the game, working it hard, working it well, just like this crew today and we’ve created a set of rules that’s hard to understand. I can tell you I don’t understand them."
The coach above is actually talking about the new Cut Block Rule not Chop Blocking, they are two different animals. Chop blocking is done by two players on one. One goes high the other low. Cut blocks are from the waist down , from the front and done at a 10-2 angle ( steering wheel of car). There are players that are restricted at when they can do it and where on the field it can be done. It can be confusing and it has a lot to do with the tackle box.
