commit-ee?

It'd be hard to be an announcer on live TV, I recognize this. However, sometimes the stupidest things get said.

I'm watching the Notre Dame vs Louisville basketball game and there was a foul, but it was sort of confusing who was fouling whom because the players were bunched together. Discussing this the announcer says:
"We're trying to figure out who the committer of the foul is and the commit-ee is." Is this like an employer/employee situation? So someone who receives a committed something-er-other is thus a commit-ee, or rather a committee?
So it's not a recipient, or even the guy who got fouled, but some pseudo-french-ified past participled English verb that supercedes the definition of an existent noun (that we happened to already snag from a French past participle anyway).

Overanalyzing complete.