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If Manny Harris can get ejected for a clearly inadvertent elbow. Way to be consistent Big Ten refs.
What Harris did is done about 50 times per game, was perfectly fine within the context of the game, and was more Kramer's fault than anything else. The refs agreed, until they noticed Kramer was bleeding. Check the tape, people bleed even if they aren't standing up.
No one is arguing that Harris never moved his elbow, and if he were trying to hit him, he would have done more than hit the outside of his nose.
I realize that .gif isn't perfect but unless you have some better replay thats what I'm going by. Anyway you see in frame 2 that Harris can see Kramer might not be at 12 o'clock but 10-11 o'clock and it really usually will be in your field a vision. He started to lift the ball at that point but not commited to changing sides. Then in frame 3 can see his elbow is going to land on Kramer's nose. Which tells me that he made a quick decision to throw the elbow at Kramer. In picture 4 it is clearly connected and picture 5 is the follow though. I can also tell you from being there that the speed that he brought the ball across the body was much faster than normal. Notice the distance between Kramer and Harris that is atleast 2 feet so it isn't like Kramer was inches from him. All of that adds up to me that Harris knew what he was doing when he though the elbow.