For Years, The Naval Academy has played dirty football. Always resorting to cheap shots and chop blocks. UCF will have to be calm and cool and take no retaliation penalties.
Navy Plays Plays Dirty Football
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Dude, they are legitimate warriors trained to kill people. All is fair in love and war ! Culturally we are not supposed to point things out like this against Army or Navy because of their career tract being in the military . One would think they would play clean as they being instilled about things like integrity,honor ,leadership and such .
They are officers that will not be on the battlefield.
Other than leaving usf behind, leaving this BORING game behind is the most exciting thing about leaving the conference.
If it’s illegal, why aren’t they flagged every play? Are they “dirty” as in you think they’re trying to hurt players or you just don’t like their blocking scheme? This is the first time I’ve heard anyone call academy players dirty.
The Midshipmen play hard, compete, and use a legal blocking scheme that everyone knows they’ll use. We better come ready to play or they’ll slap a loss on us like last year. We better not underestimate the Mids. They strap their helmets on and come ready to compete with anyone.
People have said this for many years. They'll go for our guys knees more than once in this game.
Have you ever watched a game ref'ed by an AAC crew? Do you think they actually call penalties? When's the last decade they actually measured a 1st down?
If this is the 1st time you've ever heard this, then it must be the 1st time you've ever paid attention to NCAA football. I watch absolutely nothing other than UCF football, and even I've heard this about them for years (in case you want to be petty, I've heard it from other NCAA fans).
I was thinking that while watching one of the old games another poster linked a couple months ago. Nowadays if its close they spot it as a first down and wave for the chains to be moved.
They may as well, as it's a bit silly anyway. What's the tolerance on a ref eyeballing where the ball is when the knee goes down (looking in two places at once), and is it tight enough to be measuring it with any kind of precision?
There aren't enough significant figures in the spot.
Did you catch the Tulane QB run of 9 yards where they gave him 11?
I’m also wondering how you never heard this about any option team, it’s common knowledge to any CFB fan. All they do is dive at the “thighs/hips” but that also ends up being the knees a lot. Playing the academies is always a risk of injuring, not saying they are “dirty” but they certainly play a brand of “don’t give af” as they know what they could do by it.
Oh I’ve heard complaining, but only from whiny fans of teams losing to option teams. Never heard any UCF players (or any college player) complain. Never heard anyone calling them “dirty”
They‘ve been blocking like that for decades and every team playing college football is allowed to block that way. The NCAA doesn’t consider it illegal or dirty. …it’s only “dirty” after they hang an L on a fan’s team because they think they’re just going to roll over an academy team….
They‘ve been blocking like that for decades and every team playing college football is allowed to block that way. The NCAA doesn’t consider it illegal or dirty. …it’s only “dirty” after they hang an L on a fan’s team because they think they’re just going to roll over an academy team….
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Its a tactic used at all levels. NFL guys do it. You just can’t do it if another guy is already blocking him. Typically its done when a guy that is smaller is blocking.
We complain when we lose about refs every game. That will never change.
On several 3rd or 4th n short their line had a full second head start with no call. We knew aac would shaft us this season but we still played down to opponents
The refs were atrocious in the Tulane game, worst ever. Here's hoping a P5 crew actually have seen a football game before.
I didn’t see anything illegal or dirty. Center is clearly going to block his assigned LB and come s no where close to engaging Barber….. who is directly over him before The snap. Barber cuts across the gap and grazes the center on his way to the ball carrier. Center is not trying to block him..he’s going after the LB.
