Photographic Evidence
Trojan fans, players, and coaches have made the grass at Notre Dame stadium last year a controversy. They claim the lengthy grass caused a season ending knee injury to USC’s Desmond Reed. The media has piled on blaming Charlie Weis of malicious intent to maim the Trojans that day.
How many of these pundits have actually gone back to watch the play which ended Reed’s season? Not many. If they did, they would clearly see that this was a player way out of position in the first place. It is our assertion that the grass was not the culprit here, but a player out of position.
Now, with the help of photographic evidence obtained through NBC we can reconstruct the play and prove that Reed is to blame for the injury. Not the grass.
This is the first screenshot from the kickoff where Reed was injured. This is the first moment the Reed enters the screen. He is the cut off figure on the right hand side of the photo near Notre Dame’s 14 yard line.
Here is Reed running back to field the kickoff between the 8 and 9 yard lines.
At the five yard line Reed makes a weird turn to try and field the ball flying over his head. This is where he goes down.
Here is Reed laying on the 2 yard line as the ball sails over his head. Clearly, if Reed was positioned to field the kick-off on the goal line, there would be no discussion of tall grass and Weis’ desire to injure and maim opposing players.
November 25th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
JVH breaks it down as well as Jaws. Show me one coach that has ever taught that you should go backwards to field a kickoff, and I’ll personally go mow the yard of Reed’s parents’ illegally rented yard.
November 25th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
I think Ty actually taught that you should run backwards to field kickoffs.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:23 am
[...] So things are getting spicy for media darling Reggie Bush. Remember when he pushed Leinart into the endzone? The media ate that up. It was such a clever move. Ha Ha, that Reggie. The controversy for that game was the grass and how horrible a person Charlie Weis is for causing injury to Desmond Reed. And how about those earrings he wore to the Heisman trophy ceremony? No one but the IRT questioned that. Then there was the USC/ND game this year. Not one mention of the ongoing federal investigation into Reggie and his family. Reggie is untouchable. He does what he wants when he wants. And where does this leave USC and Pete Carroll? The Feds are involved with this now which means the NCAA and the media, who both would prefer to look away, will be forced to look directly at these allegations and, get this, actually do something. [...]
October 20th, 2007 at 6:48 am
[...] Irish two years ago. But if you did think that, then you’d be failing to take into account the excellent detective work that the guys at the IRT did before last year’s SC game: How many of these pundits have actually gone back to watch the [...]