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REPLY: There's some discussion about there being two penalty yardage choices for free kicks OOB. I respectfully disagree. The only penalty yardage option for a free kick OOB is 5 yards from previous spot and re-kick. Offering the ball to R 25 yards in advance of K's free-kick line is not an award of penalty yardage; it's simply another means by which R can choose to dispose of the foul. Think about it...
(1) the only place you 'measure' from is K's free kick line; therefore yardage would appear to be enforced against team R.
(2) what if by some chance (maybe after a FC) K was free kicking from R's 30 and they kick it OOB. Do you only go half the distance to R's 15? No...the only way you can enforce this choice is to give R the ball at his 5 (which he'll never take). Distance penalties are always subject to the half the distance limitation in Fed ball.
No, this isn't an award of penalty yardage, but simply an optional place for R to begin their series.
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Bob M.
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