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Originally Posted by ajmc
The penalized team did not lose an "otherwise legitimate gain", one of their teammates chose to discount and reject it. If you choose to minimize the penalty by allowing a live ball foul to be arbitrarily reduced to a dead ball enforcement, you are guilty of enabling that player to behave badly, which may only encourage him, or others, to repeat that behavior over and over again. Who benefits from that?
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The penalty isn't being reduced by this practice, it's being made uniform. In most cases the dead ball enforcement will be more severe than live ball enforcement would be, but in this rare case (foul by offense 50 yards behind the run's end) it will be much less severe than live ball enforcement would be.
Robert