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Bob Stoops: Big 12's Walt Anderson said Jordan Evans did nothing wrong
"After Oklahoma linebacker Jordan Evans was ejected in the first quarter of Saturday’s season opener against Louisiana Tech, Sooners coach Bob Stoops said he was going to seek clarification on the call with Big 12 officiating coordinator Walt Anderson.
Tuesday night on his weekly coaches show, Stoops said Anderson had told him Evans did nothing wrong on the play.
“I spoke on Monday with Walt Anderson, it was actually after my press conference. He cut me off really and said, ‘Bob, your player didn’t do anything wrong.’ He understood that for whatever reason they misinterpreted the rule to some degree and because I didn’t know what to tell my player.
“The quarterback’s no longer a quarterback when he’s running with the football and he’s a runner. He wasn’t on his knee. He wasn’t falling backwards to slide. He wasn’t even had his knee on the ground yet and my guy’s already committed to tackling him when he ducks late. I was asking for, what am I going to tell my guy? He said, ‘You don’t have to tell him anything. He did what he was supposed to do.’ No one’s making an issue of it. Everybody’s on this learning curve of understanding the targeting rule and it’s the right rule. We’ve just got to keep working through it to make it correct.”"
"After Oklahoma linebacker Jordan Evans was ejected in the first quarter of Saturday’s season opener against Louisiana Tech, Sooners coach Bob Stoops said he was going to seek clarification on the call with Big 12 officiating coordinator Walt Anderson.
Tuesday night on his weekly coaches show, Stoops said Anderson had told him Evans did nothing wrong on the play.
“I spoke on Monday with Walt Anderson, it was actually after my press conference. He cut me off really and said, ‘Bob, your player didn’t do anything wrong.’ He understood that for whatever reason they misinterpreted the rule to some degree and because I didn’t know what to tell my player.
“The quarterback’s no longer a quarterback when he’s running with the football and he’s a runner. He wasn’t on his knee. He wasn’t falling backwards to slide. He wasn’t even had his knee on the ground yet and my guy’s already committed to tackling him when he ducks late. I was asking for, what am I going to tell my guy? He said, ‘You don’t have to tell him anything. He did what he was supposed to do.’ No one’s making an issue of it. Everybody’s on this learning curve of understanding the targeting rule and it’s the right rule. We’ve just got to keep working through it to make it correct.”"
