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Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes
Excellent idea. They stop at the 1 foot line to do the flip, so now we're going back 15 yards from there and starting over. BRILLIANT!!!
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No. I always hate the idea of a non-tactical foul's being penalized tactically. If there were some other way to punish USC, such as spanking, that wouldn't affect the game, that'd be preferable. As long as yardage is going to be the penalty, it should bear as little cx as possible to the tactical situation, because so did the foul. What sense does it make to try to determine the spot of the foul for a foul that has nothing to do with place on the field? Why should doing a flip on the 1 foot line result in any different spot from doing it on the 10 yard line? What if someone commits USC in the coach's box close to the 50 yard line, 40 yards behind the end of the run?
At one time certain distance penalties caused the line-to-gain to move so that the distance to gain remained the same. I think USC should go back to that kind of enforcement.
Robert