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Originally Posted by OverAndBack
Okay, so my question is, then....would you shut the play down, or would you drop the flag, continue to officiate and see what happens?
I mean, it's conceivable the play could backfire and the offense could throw an interception or fumble and have it returned for a touchdown.
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REPLY: The comment that warrenkicker posted lies beneath the "where's the tee" play in the casebook. There, it specifically says to rule this as USC
before the snap thereby precluding the play. Now, in actuality, if this play were unknown to the officials, they could honestly believe that the snap wasn't imminent as well and just waited to see what was going to happen. In that case, once the ball was snapped and they saw it was all a ruse, they would need to blow it dead. (Quick: What football fundamental would they be breaching in so doing?) But that seems the only fair way to do it. If you let the play go and call it USC, enforcement would be from the succeeding spot. Therefore anything that occurred during that play--including a possible TD by A--would stand.