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College-Football Notebook: Pacific 10 reprimands Stanford coach Harbaugh
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Published: October 8, 2008
■ Coach Jim Harbaugh of Stanford was reprimanded by the Pac-10 for criticizing the conference's officials after last weekend's loss at Notre Dame.
"Pac-10 rules prohibit comments by a coach about officiating other than to the conference office," Commissioner Tom Hansen said in a statement. "Coach Harbaugh violated that rule by publicly criticizing the officials."
Harbaugh was angry about a fair-catch interference call against Stanford's Nate Wilcox-Fogel in the second quarter of a 28-21 loss to the Irish. Instead of recovering a muffed punt by Armando Allen in Notre Dame territory, the penalty gave the Irish the ball at the Cardinal 48 and led to the score that put Notre Dame up 21-7.
"We got a couple of really bad calls go against us. That's what I saw from the field anyway. It's hard to imagine that people don't know football any better than that," Harbaugh said after the game.
Hansen also backed up the officials who made the call, saying Wilcox-Fogel did interfere with Allen.
"Even though the player attempting to catch the kick was bumped by his teammate, he still attempted to catch the kick and was impeded by the Stanford player," Hansen said. "The rule places the onus on the kicking team member to avoid impeding the opportunity to catch the ball."
■ Ball State receiver Dante Love, recovering from a career-ending spinal injury, might be released from a rehabilitation center this week. Love took a head-on hit during a 42-20 win over Indiana on Sept. 20 and had surgery the day after the game.
No. 25 Ball State (6-0), which was ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time this week, will play at Western Kentucky (2-4) on Saturday night.
■ Coach Joe Paterno of Penn State, who has a sore right leg, is unsure if he will feel well enough to be on the sideline for Saturday's game at Wisconsin.
Paterno said yesterday that he'll determine at the end of the week whether he'll coach from the field or the press box.
Paterno, 81, hurt the leg in late August while demonstrating an onside kick to his team. He said it has been sore ever since, though some days are better than others.
■ The ACC has announced starting times for games scheduled Oct. 18, with two games set for noon and two others set for 3:30.
Wake Forest will play at Maryland (Raycom), and Georgia Tech will play at Clemson (ESPN or ESPN2) at noon. North Carolina will play at Virginia (ABC, ESPN2) and Miami will play at Duke (ESPNU) at 3:30, and the Virginia Tech-Boston College game (ESPN or ESPN2) will kick off at 8 p.m.
In a previously announced kickoff time, Florida State will play at N.C. State (ESPN) at 7:30 on Oct. 16.
■ Coach Steve Spurrier of South Carolina confirmed yesterday that sophomore Chris Smelley will start at quarterback Saturday against Kentucky.
Smelley threw for a career-high 327 yards and tied a career best with three touchdown passes last weekend as South Carolina rallied to beat Mississippi 31-24 for its third straight win. Spurrier said that Smelley wasn't perfect, but added that the offense made strides in ending a six-game SEC losing streak.
■ Coach Dan Hawkins and Colorado have agreed to a contract extension that could keep him at the school through 2012. Hawkins is 11-9 in his third year at Colorado, including 3-2 this season.
Hawkins originally signed a five-year, $4.25 million contract, not including incentives, that was to run through Dec. 31, 2010.
■ Colgate and Georgetown will not reschedule last Saturday's football game, which was postponed because of a viral outbreak on the Georgetown campus.
Patriot League officials made the decision yesterday after consulting with athletics directors at the league's seven football-playing schools. The ADs unanimously endorsed the decision.
The Oct. 4 game was postponed after 214 Georgetown students were sickened by the norovirus, commonly known as the stomach flu, and several football players were exposed to it.
■ Wide receiver Ike Whitaker of Virginia Tech is scheduled to appear in court next month after being charged with two misdemeanors -- public swearing and intoxication. According to the Virginia courts case-information Web site, a hearing is scheduled Nov. 6 in Montgomery County General Court.
Coach Frank Beamer said last Thursday that Whitaker was suspended indefinitely.
STATE/AREA SCHEDULE
Thursday
ACC
Clemson at Wake Forest, 7:30
MEAC
Winston-Salem State at Florida A&M, 7:30
Saturday
ACC
East Carolina at Virginia, Noon
Notre Dame at North Carolina, 3:30
Gardner-Webb at Georgia Tech, 3:30
Central Florida at Miami, 3:45
SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
Elon at The Citadel, 2 p.m.
W. Carolina at Furman, 2 p.m.
Chattanooga at Wofford, 3 p.m.
Appalachian St. at Samford, 3:30
MEAC
Morgan State at N.C. A&T, 1:30
Norfolk State at S.C. State, 1:30
Delaware State at Bethune-Cookman, 4 p.m.
CIAA
Lincoln (Pa.) at Virginia Union, 1 p.m.
Elizabeth City at Bowie State, 1 p.m.
Virginia State at Saint Paul's, 1:30
Livingstone at Chowan, 6 p.m.
Saint Augustine's at J.C. Smith, 6 p.m.
SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
Brevard at Tusculum, 1:30
Lenoir-Rhyne at Wingate, 1:30
Newberry at Mars Hill, 2:30
Carson-Newman at Catawba, 7 p.m.
OTHERS
East Carolina at Virginia, Noon
Butler at Campbell, Noon
South Carolina at Kentucky, 12:30
Averett at Methodist, 1 p.m.
Greensboro at Christopher Newport, 1 p.m.
UNC Pembroke at W.Va. Wesleyan, 1 p.m.
N.C. Central at Presbyterian, 1:30
Davidson at Valparaiso, 2 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at Georgia Tech, 3:30
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