What will the next down be?

[BoBo]

That is the way we enforced it tonight and the coaches for both teams were somewhat confused. Of course what is new.

They could not, the offending team A, understand how the penalty could be accepted and they did not get to keep the ball.

I told them by the result of their actions (OPI) they had given up their right to the ball.

I learned from a similar experience a few years ago when we had a team that intentionally grounded the ball on 4th down. We kind of bailed ourselves out by telling the defensive team to decline the penalty and they would receive the ball on downs from the previous spot. We did not enforce it right then but learned from our mistake. Fortunately that night it had no bearing on the result of the game.

Felt we were right but looking for a little reassurence.