2017-18 NFHS Interpretations, Pt.1

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

This play has been in there before. The "defense" isn't the "defense" until the "offense" has player control inbounds. (We had a long discussion on here about that once a long long time ago). The only exception that's avaialable on this play is the throw-in exception, and that only applies to the first person to touch / catch the throw-in.

I do remember that discussion now that you bring it back up. I still don't like that way of looking at offense/defense. But thank you for reminding me.