J.V. Gibson was the injured player that left the game. He was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital and had a CT-Scan. No results have been made public. He was discharged last night and traveled back to Cincinnati with the team.
Glad the young man was discharged and back home.
It’s crazy because I saw the replay when I got home last night.
To me, it doesn’t look like a usual targeting play since our player didn’t lead with the helmet (he used his shoulder) and there was no helmet-to-helmet clash.
Now, I never played football, so idk if our player seemed to intentionally want to hurt the guy; I’ll leave that to the folks that have played football and know how to tell if the hit was with ill-intent.
It was clear targeting, as it was a defenseless player, the defender launched his body, and it was a violent hit at the head or neck area. From my perspective, however, it did not seem intentional, but rather momentum carrying the defender and him not averting his trajectory to avoid the impact.
If that was a UH player and not a Cincinnati player getting hit, I’d call for targeting.
It was also a late hit penalty because the ball was in the back of the end zone when he was hit, so it was a stupid hit either way.
OK, so our player is also suspended for the first half of the Colorado game, right?
No. The NCAA changed that rule.
So that player will be back next game?
Despite the ejection, DB Jordan Allen is eligible to play against Colorado. The NCAA changed the targeting penalty this year for the first offense.
Yes.
He also didn’t have to leave the sideline when ejected.
Ah, I didn’t realize that.
Gonna install them Elon thruster jets on the helmets.
We’ll just call them air brakes!
All the way to the back of the end zone? How many milliseconds did that take?
There is a reason it was called a late hit then reviewed for targeting.
I know and I get it, no carry over/follow through exemptions.
All in all I also understand how these guys fly even better than I did at their age and all are encouraged to play beyond human capabilities.
I just pray for the players involved.
U had an injury where a friend had caught a ball on the sideline and was tumbling, bent at the waist, back on the ground and I was in the air above him. His legs were rolling toward me and his foot caught me at the cartilage on the lower right of my rib cage. It broke that off the bone and I had a loose sternum that popped when I moved certain ways depending on lung expansion from breathing.
Sounds bad but we played on and it hurt for several months.
Could have been much worse but it is what we did in those days.
The odd thing is he had what was called a Pidgeon chest and was not supposed to play football (this was no pads band practice field stuff).
The protruding chest structure a hazard that if it caved in would be much more likely to damage his heart. God did a great job of protecting vital organs but this was one of those exceptions.
I can assure Colorado saw that hit. I can also assure you they will be looking out for Allen and trying to get on the ground as soon as possible.
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