Illegal Kick

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

NCAA still keeps the archaic difference between an illegal kick (return kick, kick by Team A beyond LOS) and illegally kicking ball (all other forms of kicks that aren't legal). The rule needs to be rewritten and updated, though it doesn't necessarily need to change what's happening now. It is silly and illogical to suggest there is an actual difference between something called an "illegal kick" and something else called "illegally kicking ball."

I don't see why it needs to be rewritten, as it allowed more compact form than Fed's provisions on the subject these days are done in. It was convenient to put a wrapper around the punt, drop kick, & place kick, and call those "kicks". Kicking the ball in NCAA may or may not result in a kick. The penalty consequences may be the same, but sometimes the result of declining a penalty will be different depending on whether it was an illegal kick or illegally kicking the ball.