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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Same problem as your OP.
Wait for your whistle to what? Start sounding? Finish sounding? Sound for at least 1 second?
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I'll tell the center anytime that I am over the ball to not snap it until they hear a whistle. We are clean as long as he doesn't snap it BEFORE he blows the RFP. I don't care how long the R wants to stand there and blow it in. I DO care if they snap it before he does.
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Originally Posted by jontheref
I've been through this play where the team was set awaiting us with one second left. There is nothing by rule that stipulates the team must be set after the whistle....only that they all be set prior to the snap. In our play, they got off the play with one second, through a fade to the end zone--saw a flag for dpi....where they got another play...and a score for a tie game. No controversey there, eh? But, yes, the play was a legal play.  |
I don't see any reason to think that this play was illegal, but that doesn't mean that 1 coach isn't gonna like the ruling.
A friend of mine (seriously not me) had a similar situation where there were 2 or 3 seconds left in the game after a 15-20 yd completion resulted in a 1st down. They hustle up to the LOS, get set while the officials are setting up the sticks and snap the ball at the whistle. and spike it to kill the clock.