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Big Ten coordinator of officials still regrets targeting call

CHICAGO — Big Ten football officials called targeting penalties 21 times last season. After video review, they reversed that call on the field nine times, and coordinator of football officials Bill Carollo wants one back.

In the second quarter of a scoreless game Nov. 7 between the Gophers and Ohio State, Buckeyes safety Joshua Perry was flagged for targeting as Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner threw an interception. Vonn Bell then returned it 16 yards for a touchdown.

After rewinding the footage multiple times, the call was reversed, and the Buckeyes took a 7-0 lead en route to a 28-14 victory at Ohio Stadium.

“I know these targeting plays that still hang with me,” Carollo said Tuesday at Big Ten media days.

“It was a targeting call based on the video from television that was brought into the replay booth,” Carollo said. “The play was reversed by one of my senior replay officials, who is an expert at it, based on that video.”

Carollo said that following Monday he received another video opposite the original evidence from the press box side of the field. “Someone sent it to the office and said, ‘What about this?’ ” Carollo said. “I said, ‘Whoa.’ ”

“(Leidner) got hit in the chin; it’s wrong,” Carollo said. “That is one of the mistakes that, I can’t say I downgraded the replay based on that information, but technically, that was a big mistake.”

http://www.twincities.com/2016/07/2...still-regrets-targeting-call-against-gophers/
 
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/11/ohio_states_overturned_targeti.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A targeting call that wasn't changed Saturday's game for Ohio State.

The Buckeyes kept the first six points of their 28-14 win over Minnesota when a penalty on linebacker Joshua Perry was changed on review, and they kept something else just as valuable.

"It wasn't so much the points, it's a lot of momentum that comes with it," Perry said. "It was a big momentum swing either way, so I'm glad to have it on our side. I think it got things going a little bit and gave us some juice."
 
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