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Originally Posted by FeetBallRef
For a loose-ball play, the basic spot is the previous spot. If "A" holds behind the basic spot on a loose-ball play, the ABO + 10 yards is applied (spot of the foul +10yards). The enforcement spot is now the ABO spot & 10 yards will be marked off from there.
If "B" refuses the "distance penalty", is the succeeding spot the basic spot or the ABO (enforcement spot)?
The rules aren't clear on this (unless I am missing something). I would think that since "B" refuses the distance penalty, they also give up the ABO enforcement spot and the succeeding spot will be the basic spot.
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If the penalty is declined, the succeeding spot is the spot in which the ball would have been spotted absent any fouls.
Previous spot if it were an incomplete pass, end of run if it was a completed pass.
It's not an Ala Carte choice, they either accept the penalty, which includes 10 yards behind the enforcement spot and a repeat of the down or they decline the penalty and play proceeds as if there had been no penalty.