On Iowa with Marc Morehouse

Jim Polzin, getting after it . . .

When a controversial call happens in a Big Ten football game, the home school sends its designated pool reporter to the officials lockerroom to ask questions and, hopefully, clarify. I think I'm that guy at Kinnick, I'm not sure. I know I used to be.

Anyway, when the inadvertant whistle play went down Saturday night in Madison, UW sent its pool reporter, Jim Polzin of The Capital Times, to interview head official Dave Witvoet, an official already held in contempt by you Hawkeye people.

The officials made the right call. The best thing for Iowa would've been to recover the ball out of that pile. LB Mike Humpal had it, but he was rolling while trying to gather it in. The only beef the Hawkeyes had was with the laws of physics. The ball somehow shot out of that pile like it was fired out of a potato gun. No, the laws of physics don't come with a pool reporter.

Here's some of Jim Polzin's interview with Witvoet (Jim didn't hold back):

JP: That is where you ruled it was fumbled, it looked like on TV . . .

DW: That is where it was fumbled. That was confirmed by replay. The ball was fumbled at the 3-yard line and it was loose in the end zone.

JP: Do you konw who blew the whistle in the end zone?

DW: One of the officials.

JP: Has that happened to your crew a lot over the years?

DW: No. Doesn't happen very often at all.

I loved that last question.

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