Quote Originally Posted by big#44 View Post
Joyners hit was totally legal. Bradhams hit was legal against miami last year. FSU just simply isnt allowed to layout players like that for some unwritten reason.
Launched, lead with his helmet, and hit a "defenseless" receiver. Other than those 3 things, yeah, perfectly legal hit.

This hit is what is wrong with high school and college football, and by extension the NFL. Joyner wanted to lay the Duke receiver out and be on SportsCenter. If he had fundamentally wrapped the receiver up and driven him out of bounds, the ball falls incomplete and he does his job. But since he wanted to lay the wood, he launched himself, failed to wrap up, and first contact was his helmet to the receivers chest. Naturally, it elicited the desired effect from the crowd, the FSU bench and his teammates. It also properly drew the flag. He did 3 things that have been deemed fouls, and yet here you are saying how great a play it was and how it was totally legal. When he launched like a missile and ducked his head, there was no way that play was within the rules.