That hit on Mendoza by Nwankpa

















At the next commercial break I went back and watched it.

Nwankpa disappeared into their sideline, surrounded by Indiana's players. He got up, didn't celebrate, didn't taunt anyone, simply tried to quickly return to the field. Several Indiana players faced him directly and clearly didn't allow him to return to the field. It appeared he got knocked down at that point. I couldn't see exactly what happened after that, but it was somewhere between shoves and punches.

That's an extremely dangerous situation, and the kind of thing that can get real bad, real fast. Like fans jumping out of the stands, a coach swinging at a kid, major brawl, etc.

There HAS to be a flag for at a minimum not letting a player exit your sideline and get back on the field. I thought there would likely be ejections, too, although it is hard to tell without closer camera angles.

If I'm Iowa, I would be trying to get any and all footage of that and send it in to the league. Maybe it looked worse than it was, that in fact Nwankpa was mostly just bumped a little, slipped and mostly talk after that. But still worthy of at least a flag in my opinion.
 


This happened right in front of me, and it was actually WORSE than what you see on the video. Nwankpa was boxed in and was kept from returning to the field, as you say, but he was then blatantly PUSHED to the ground. One of the refs runs in, and then, unbelievably -- and you can't really see this -- #7 from Indiana comes at Nwankpa AGAIN and pushes him down. I remember the #. The ref had his back to #7, and must have thought he got pushed into the situation or something, because he never even looked back to see who had done that 2nd push. There should have been TWO personal fouls called on that play. That there were none was unbelievable, and why the crowd reacted as we did. Absolute BS by Indiana players.
 


Grady said:
This happened right in front of me, and it was actually WORSE than what you see on the video. Nwankpa was boxed in and was kept from returning to the field, as you say, but he was then blatantly PUSHED to the ground. One of the refs runs in, and then, unbelievably -- and you can't really see this -- #7 from Indiana comes at Nwankpa AGAIN and pushes him down. I remember the #. The ref had his back to #7, and must have thought he got pushed into the situation or something, because he never even looked back to see who had done that 2nd push. There should have been TWO personal fouls called on that play. That there were none was unbelievable, and why the crowd reacted as we did. Absolute BS by Indiana players.
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I completely get the Indiana players trying to have their guys back, but the refs need to throw the correct flag. As you said there should have been a flag on Indiana for unnecessary roughness.
 


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