Illinois High School Association/NFHS

[5 sport ref]

Sorry. Was having a bad day. I probably did over 100 youth games this season and at least once per day I had a coach who had a gimick play that they try to run. Some want to run a center sneak where the center will snap the ball and just take it and run from there. Then we tell the coach that it is illegal and that the center must face his own goal line to take the snap. Usual reply is that we always do it that way. I fault the rest of my official bretheren (sp?). It should be called the same way every week. I just think that a lot of youth teams worry about gimicks they can run as opposed to fundamentals