Texas Tech’s Johnson victim of inconsistent targeting penalty

In the interest of player safety, the NCAA is harming college football. Since 2013, the NCAA has put a much greater emphasis on the now infamous targeting rule which is defined as, “making forcible contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet” (Rule 9-6) according to the NCAA college football rulebook. But the ever-increasing penchant for penalizing players for targeting when the player has indeed not committed the act as it is defined in the NCAA rulebook is taking some of the best college football players in the game off the field and harming their teams’ ability to complete.

In the NCAA rulebook, a second definition of targeting reads, “No player shall target and make…