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Originally posted by Mike Simonds
Sounds like a NF and NCAA rule difference.
My mentor (who does NCAA and NF) said NCAA rules require contact for PI to be called.
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He's correct.NCAA AR 7-3-8 which describes the classic face guarding by the defender, but includes a "bump" which is the contact the rule requires.
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In NF, I know that the rules support calling PI on B if B is just standing there and blocks A's path to the ball. In fact, there is a picture in the illustrated rules book that supports this.
Therefore, in order for B to avoid the DPI call, he had better be making a bona fide effort to move towards and catch the pass...
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Are we looking at the same picture, pg 63, 7-5-10a in the 2002 S&I manual?
That depicts DPI on team-B player #50 because the team-A player #85 is the one standing there as he is entitled to hold that spot.
However, I think the intent is that the rule applies to team-B being able to just stand there and hold his position. He might not even see the receiver moving his way. It will take more than just standing there before I'm going to judge that is intentions were to block the path of the receiver.
[Edited by Theisey on Apr 30th, 2003 at 09:22 PM]