Since we seem to have some new people on the board, and since it's summer, I thought I'd post another situation that never really was resolved. It concerns the delay of game warning for reaching over the boundary on an inbounds play. Here's the scenario.
A1 to inbound (spot or not is irrelevant). A1 releases ball toward court, but before it crosses the endline, it is touched by B1 who reached across the line after the ball was released.
The NF rulebook is not clear on the call. There are three possibilities: 1) no call (this theory is espoused by those who think that all restrictions end once the ball is released toward the court) 2) it is a warning (most former posters agreed with this - of course if it was the second warning, it would be a T) or 3) it is a technical foul against B1, the same as if B1 hit the ball while A1 was still holding it (we were told by a poster that this interpretation came from Howard Mayo, a member of the NF rules committee).
What do you think? Some former posters said to call it whatever way your association tells you to, but in this case (a strict rule interpretation, not a mechanic or subjective situation), I think that's a cop-out. This should be clarified in the rulebook, or at least be in the casebook.
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Mon Jul 10, 2000, 11:46am
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