COLUMBUS, Ohio — You will never convince some Ohio State football fans Shaun Wade should not have been flagged for targeting against Clemson in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl. The best the NCAA can do to assuage the Buckeyes’ anger is make sure no players have to perform what OSU coach Ryan Day called the “walk of shame.” The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Tuesday approved a rule change allowing players who are ejected for targeting to remain with their team on the sideline. Since the rule was instituted in 2013, disqualified players had to leave the field and go to the locker room for the remainder of the game. All other aspects of the targeting rule remain the same. That means Wade still would have been lost for the game for his second-quarter hit on Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence. But he could have watched the second half from the…
Continue Reading: NCAA abolishes targeting ‘walk of shame’ like the one Ohio State football’s Shaun Wade took at Fiesta Bowl
