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I want to preface my comments by says that I won't be seeing the A11 personally - in Germany they play under NCAA rules which have (as already pointed out) closed this loophole.
Reading the arguements abouth the A11 however lead me to think of another very strange offense that I have seen. Here they call it the 'Swinging Gate'
Basically a very unbalanced line where all interior linemen are on one hash mark and the snapper (last man on the line with elligible number) is on the other. The snap goes either to the QB directly behind him or directly to a RB behind the line. I expect you can all visualise what it looks like.
Seeing it on the field here, there were defenses not even breaking their huddle because they didn't realize it was a formation. Other defenses running around like the well known headless chicken.
I can imagine a lot of the same talk about this sort of offense. Not illegal, but definately something so different it would make some people uncomfortable.
Just to let you know - the team I was with at the time spent an afternoon evaluating the offense and figured out a huge problem in how it was run (here). So with a little time and studying, hopefully the teams that need to oppose your A11 will be able to come up with something that will shut it down (or balance everything out) and keep the players having fun and playing ball!
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