As Week 3 of the college football season came to a close, Cal's Vic Enwere became the latest college football player to court disaster by inexplicably dropping the ball before he crossed the goal line on what should have been an easy touchdown.
Oklahoma's Joe Mixon did the same earlier in the day, and though neither the Bears nor the Sooners ultimately were hurt by the gaffes, they were all the more perplexing after Clemson's Ray-Ray McCloud found himself in the national spotlight for doing the same thing the previous week and costing his Tigers a touchdown.
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Cal coach Sonny Dykes, for one, has seen enough. Starting next week, there will be a new rule for Bears who reach the end zone: “Every time we score a touchdown from now on, we will hand the ball directly to an official,” Dykes said, via USA Today.
Vic Enwere : 18 carries, 110 yards & 2 TD's (Could've scored a 3rd TD but he forgot something) pic.twitter.com/SgjIOhNasp
— Lee Harvey (@MusikFan4Life) September 18, 2016
Stop doing this https://t.co/4akKY4XEIB
— Joe Fleming (@ByJoeFleming) September 18, 2016
Considering how much time coaches spend drilling the sanctity of ball security into their players' heads, the run of drops at the worst possible moment certainly is curious. And you can bet Dykes won't be the only coach cueing up videos of these plays for his team this week. A teachable moment, as they say.
“It’s really a strange phenomenon,” Dykes said. “I don’t understand it. But I can assure you it won’t ever happen to us again. We’ll get it fixed.”
