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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
NCAA: everything that happened on the play is legal PROVIDED THAT K3 had not crossed the neutral zone prior to passing the ball. If he had, both he and the ball would have been across the line, making any forward pass (from both behind and beyond) the neutral zone an illegal forward pass (See 7-3-2-e). While it is arguable that this isn't the intent of that rule, we have nothing else to go on.
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That's interesting! You're saying that even if the passer and the ball had
separately been in advance of the neutral zone some time before the ball was recovered and thrown, it's illegal for him to pass forward?