Throwin Plane

[mick]

Originally Posted by Jesse James

I've been out of this long enough, that some of these situations are handled totally differently than what I recall. I guess my question would be, why doesn't the play by definition get killed the instant a defender reaches through the plane, and either be warned, or T'd? That action happens before the ball would be slapped out of the inbounder's hands, or if the defender reaches through and fouls the inbounder. Seems like #2 and #3 are dead ball actions that have no bearing, unless the contact on the inbounder was flagrant.

I don't disagree with your thoughts.
But, the rule is an idiosyncrasy. Seems that in this special case the farther the defender reaches, the more the defender is penalized.