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Originally Posted by bossman72
This year's BRD (sec 208) says no penalty for OBR
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This subject is in the BRD because there is a difference between the various rules. FED says dead ball if equipment prevented the ball from going into DBT. This is stated not in the rules, but in the CB. NCAA has an AR in the rulebook that says the ball stays LIVE. OBR has no penalty listed in the Rule Book. J/R states a penalty for balls prevented from going into LBT and J/R is considered an authoritive source of expanded interpretation by some. Use it to the level you value J/R opinions.
I suppose if you were working an OBR game in a tournament where there was a protest committee in place it would be safer to go with NO PENALTY, since that is what is listed in the rule book and no one on the committee is likely to know what J/R is, much less have one on hand.
So for ggk's original question it appears there is a difference between FED, NCAA, and OBR, on balls prevented from going in the dugout by loose equipment. But in cases where there is just simple contact they all appear to be the same, ie LIVE.