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Originally posted by mcrowder
Teams/Coaches are required to know the rules. We are not there to remind them. Do you remind the coach before a play that it's legal for him to try a forward pass? Do you remind him on 3rd and 25 from his own inchline that it's legal for him to punt? Of course not - it's part of the rules, not part of penalty enforcement. This sitch is exactly the same. Coaches need to know what they are allowed to do, without prompting from us.
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Would you agree that it is different if they know the rule to take the FK option, that we tell them after a penalty that the option is still there, or do you say they need to know that as well? I think we tell them in this case as it is part of the penalty enforcement, just as we tell them if a penalty results in a LOD if they are hollering to decline it.