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Originally Posted by voiceoflg
I do play by play for high school football and baseball and try to keep myself up on the rules of both. I produce the radio broadcasts of a D-1 school for football and basketball, so I am not as knowledgable on those rules as I don't have to talk about them on the radio.
So I need some help on a situation yesterday. Loose ball and players from both teams went for it. B1 gets it but his momentum made him step OOB. A1 is still two steps away at the whistle but takes those two steps and ran into B1. B's HC complains to the official and the official plainly says "Contact was made after your man stepped out of bounds. No foul."
This wasn't incidental contact, but pretty solid contact. I've seen similar hits OOB in football that drew 15 yard penalties. No forearms or anything like that, but a good shoulder to shoulder hit.
Probably HTBT and I have no video of it. But what is the rule on contact OOB in an NCAA game?
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Voiceoflg,
Just in case the other explanations given seemed to be missing some information, let me add a comment or two.
Once the player stepped out of bounds, the official would have sounded his whistle indicating that the ball is dead. When the ball is dead, contact is ignored UNLESS that contact is deemed to be intentional or flagrant. In other words, if there is a "bump" that occurs after the ball is blown dead for the ball being out of bounds, that very well might rise to the level of being a personal foul had it happened while the ball was alive, that "bump" is ignored. On the other hand, if there is intentional contact or flagrant contact (think of the linebacker taking two additional steps after the QB has released the ball and then clobbering him), that foul is to be penalized.
Based on the comment to the coach, the official was telling the coach that there may have been a "bump", but since the ball was dead (player already out of bounds), the foul did not rise to the level of being intentional or flagrant -- therefore, the contact was ignored.