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Originally Posted by hawkishowl20
The participation penalty assumes that the officials are competent and able to count players on the field in under a minute. It takes less than a second to determine any offense (with 5 interior lineman) has 11. That leaves a lot of time for the defense. Under no circumstances should this situation occur. Participation can only be called if the 12th defensive player runs on within 3 seconds of the snap to after the snap. Otherwise it’s on the official to call a substitution penalty. I’m sorry if you feel guilty about this but it’s just the way it is. Take the ignorant blinders off.
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First of all different officials count offense and defense, so how long it takes to count offense has no place in this discussion.
Second, your statement "Under no circumstances should this situation occur" is unfounded as the casebook states in 3.7.1 SIT B: ...or (b) A12 is in the formation as an extra lineman. This clearly implies that this situation does occur.