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In a thru d all situations are still loose-ball play so if you provide the penalty option it's always 30 yards. Now in D the only time I'd see a captain accepting that is if the LTG was over 30 yards (say 40) and the play gained 35. He might accept less yardage if the penalty gives an auto first down. So, the offense would only get 30 yards out of the penalty but would have 1st down.
As far as the original post I'm sure all of you have been coached this way (as was I) when you played. We were taught if we thought we were beat to go for DPI because 15 yards was better than 6 pts. I'm sure they put that rule in because of that coaching strategy but I guess no one really follows it. I've never called it nor seen it called either. In fact I asked my Referee about it last season and he wasn't aware of the rule. I was asking him if he ever saw it called. He said "No, and don't even think of calling it if you see it."
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