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Originally Posted by BigFarns
1) regular kickoff. mechanics pamphlet says "If the ball breaks the plane of the goalline, it is dead." Now, I thought in NCAA you could advance a kick that you caught in the endzone. Further...the situation I'm more worried about is this. Kick to say the 7 yard line and R muffs it. The ball continues into the endzone. I know that a muff doesn't change the fact that the force of the kick put the ball in the endzone so I'm not afraid of a safety situation, but does R have to go cover the ball or is it automatically a touchback because it broke the plane of the goalline? AR 8-7-2-VI says to me that R must cover it up to get the touchback.
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If the ball is untouched by Team B and touches the ground behind the goalline the ball is dead. If Team B touches the ball either in the field of play or in the end zone then they must "cover" the ball.
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2) probable onside kick situation - the mechanics pamphlet takes a special line to remind officials of R's restraining line but says if R is across that line before the ball is kicked then we are to kill the play. Rule 6-1-2-i is a live ball foul though. Why kill the play?
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The rule is right. This is a live ball foul. It looks like you need to point this out to whomever created that pamplet.
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Anyhow, I'm sure there are some Mass officials on here. If these situations are simply Massachusetts modifications to the NCAA rulebook then that's cool. If you could help me find a list of these modifications then my study would be much easier. If I'm just misreading or misapplying the NCAA rulebook then please correct me.
If I don't get an answer from here then of course I'll bring these questions (and I'm sure a million more) to the group at our next meeting but I thought it'd be fun to try this forum out. 
Thanks all. Sorry for the ridiculously long post.
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I'm not from Mass, so unless, as you mentioned that these may be modifications, then I'd say your pamplet needs some attention by the author. If you post this on refstripes dot com there are some Mass officials there that can assist you more on the modifications.