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Originally Posted by kenlopez
Team A breaks the huddle after the ready. # 83 heads for the side line. Stops short of the sideline. Faces the coaches, talks to them. Team A snaps the ball. #83 is all alone. He runs down field catches the pass. Scores.
What do we have?
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The fact that he was "all alone" (i.e. left alone by the defense) raises our suspicion from the description, but we'd have to see it to answer the question of whether this was:
- a simulated substitution; or, in Fed,
- giving the appearance of being "not ready", the snap not imminent.
AFAIK when NCAA adopted its current substitution rules to try to eliminate "hideout" (Canadian: "sleeper") plays, they didn't eliminate more general provisions by which a team could be judged to have illegally simulated a substitution even if the specific rules were complied with, but they did take most of such judgement calls out of the picture.
Robert