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Originally Posted by Jim D.
Berkut, I agree with your comments but then here is the rub. If the player who is no longer out-of-bounds is in-bounds because he jumped:
b) any sub on the sideline would be guilty of IP if he jumped in the air while cheering on a great play.
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No, they wouldn't be guilty of IP because they are non-players and they did not participate in the play. This is not the same as a player leaving and entering the field again during a play.
This, along with both the Redding Guide currently ruling this way
and the NFHS casebook having done so at one time (with no published change), I am comfortable in going with the majority on this play.
That makes the most sense to me. To argue that the present tense verb "touching" also includes the past tense does not make much sense to me at all.