Thread: 5 Yard USC
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Old Sat Aug 16, 2008, 11:30am
ajmc ajmc is offline
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Wow, yet another rule change they snuck past me. For years it was a dead ball, 5 yard penalty, "Failure to wear Required equipment" if the penalty was called before the snap and 15 yard, USC penalty if a player actually played with illegal equipment AND that 15 yarder was attributed to the Head coach and counted towards his maximum of 2 USC fouls for disqualification.

The current rule makes this penalty a 5 yard USC foul for either a dead ball foul or a live ball foul, and the disqualifying requirement for multiple USC fouls are either a flagrant foul or two "15 yard" USC penalties.

Thanks for mentioning this as whenever that was changed flew way over my head.
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