Illegal Blocks "in the back"

[mcrowder]

The ones that kill me are on longer breakaways where a defender turns away from an approaching block and faceplants. It's not a BIB if he turns his back into the block.

I think I've explained to enough of the local coaches the logic of watching how their kid goes down and that if he flies to the side, even if he didn't see it coming, it's NOT in the back.

[Bob M.]

REPLY: I'd venture to guess that the reason that your BJ and a lot of officials call an IBB when the contact is clearly from the side is because they don't see the whole play. In order to call this correctly, you need to see the approach of the blocker, the block itself, and the reaction of the player blocked. Another reason for making errors on this play is positioning--either being too close to the action or at a bad angle to see the whole play properly.