Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables did not appreciate the love from UCF wide receiver Javon Baker. He did not reciprocate the affection. Rather, he lost his mind on the officiating crew.
It all went down during the second quarter of Saturday’s college football game in Norman.
The Knights ran an RPO on 2nd-and-10 from their own 14-yard-line. Quarterback John Rhys Plumlee, one of the most dynamic runners in college football, took the snap and pulled the handoff up the middle.
It looked like he was going to tuck and around the edge, so the Sooners defense collapsed. That is exactly what UCF hoped. While Oklahoma crashed, wide receiver Javon Baker slipped past the defensive back to get the most open that any player in history has ever been open.
Plumlee flipped him the ball. Baker went 86 yards for the touchdown.
As the senior pass-catcher flew down the sideline, he turned to blow a kiss at the Sooners. So cute!
Brent Venables did not find the gesture to be as adorable as it was because, of course, Baker was mocking. His kiss was not actually from his heart.
Love may be dead, but that wasn’t Venables’ concern.
By NCAA rules, if a player taunts during a play, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty is called. The foul would result in a 15-yard penalty from the “succeeding spot.”
In this instance, Baker’s touchdown would have come off of the board. Venables expected it to be overturned as a result of his air kiss. It was not. He was irate!
By NCAA rule, even if it is super lame, a penalty would have been warranted if the officials decided to throw a flag. Instead, they hit UCF with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after the play— which kept the touchdown on the board. Venables did not agree.