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Originally Posted by Mike L
It actually kinda does in NCAA too, it just does not use the word "immediately". What it does say is it must move from the ground in a quick and continous motion of the hand, the ball actually leaving the hand in this motion.
So, I'd like TA to explain exactly how you have a quick and continuous motion and the ball leaving the hand in that motion unless it fairly immediately leaves the hand. If he keeps the ball in his hand, it's not a quick and continous motion now is it? Sounds like it needs to leave the hands pretty immediately.
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But it did leave his hands as "immediately" as it probably would have had he snapped it between his legs. That wasn't the failing. Rather, it's that the motion wasn't quick.
So let's take that off the table and imagine a case that would be controversial. No relevant verbal signals prior, and then:
QB to C: "Doofus, never mind the signal, just hand me the ball."
C to QB: "Like this?"
Snapper hands ball to QB as shown on video, but faster.
QB to C: "Yeah, just like that. Now watch as I walk it upfield."
QB walks ball to end zone.
Treat it as Fed rules. You let it go or not? It doesn't shout out, "Snap is not imminent." However, it works only by team B's not considering the ball to have been snapped.