Fumble Recovery / OOB

[Robert Goodman]

This discussion made me check, and I saw something surprising: that NCAA currently has no equivalent of Fed's illegal participation foul regarding players who voluntarily go out of bounds while the ball is live. It seems the only controls on going out of bounds and returning in bounds have to do with substitutions and the touching of forward passes, plus provisions relating to game administration by wing officials. Not even in the interpretations is there anything about such tactics as running behind either team's bench, a peanut vendor, ambulance, and cheerleaders to make a surprise tackle along a sideline, catch a backwards pass, etc.