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Old Tue Oct 07, 2008, 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by PSU213 View Post
I was watching a DI game on TV Saturday. The R announced the flag on the last play was for an "illegal chop block." I know in NF a chop block is never legal. Is there any time it is legal in NCAA?

Just curious....thanks.
REPLY: No. A chop block by definition (2-3-3) is defined to include only those combination blocks that are illegal. Any combination block that's legal will not be called a chop block. So the R in the game you watched was being repetitively redundant.
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