Face mask penalty

[MD Longhorn]

No... remember, I worked NCAA rules, so I was curious about the NFHS rules after i read your answer, and I THINK NCAA rules differ. Then again ... also remember that I hung em up for football about 5 years ago --- so I could be either simply wrong, or using obsolete rules..

Seems to me (and you allude to this) the RIGHT (as in "fair", not "correct") way would be to go from LOS if this happened in the backfield.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

No... remember, I worked NCAA rules, so I was curious about the NFHS rules after i read your answer, and I THINK NCAA rules differ. Then again ... also remember that I hung em up for football about 5 years ago --- so I could be either simply wrong, or using obsolete rules..

Seems to me (and you allude to this) the RIGHT (as in "fair", not "correct") way would be to go from LOS if this happened in the backfield.

As NCAA rules do.

NFHS rules -- we're too "stupid" to have exceptions to the "normal" enforcements, remember?

[jTheUmp]

Yeah... NCAA rules differ from FED rules in these situations.

NCAA basically (with some exceptions, intentional grounding being the most obvious example) enforces fouls for both Team A and Team B from the previous spot if they happen behind the NZ, for both run plays and loose-ball plays.

Anything beyond the NZ is enforced under three-and-one, with the basic spot as the end of the related run.

FED is simpler in the sense that everything is enforced under all-but-one, and the basic spot is the end of the related run on a running play, no matter where the run ends.

Loose-ball plays in FED have the basic spot as the previous spot, same as NCAA.



NOTE: For those that aren't familiar with both rule sets, "three-and-one" and "all-but-one" are the same thing with different language (because why use the same language when you can use different language to add an extra layer of confusion?)