Int. grounding from shotgun snap

[Kentucky Basketball]

What do you do with clock if he takes snap in shotgun and throws directly to ground? takes hand to hand snap trys to throw to ground and hits center's leg?

[MRH]

Originally Posted by Kentucky Basketball

What do you do with clock if he takes snap in shotgun and throws directly to ground? takes hand to hand snap trys to throw to ground and hits center's leg?

The clock stops for the incomplete pass but the WH has the authority to start it on the ready.

Assuming the pass hits the center's leg and then falls to the ground then I would say it is a legal spike. There is a play in the case book similiar to this other than the ball comes back up to the QB and he spikes it again. In this situation the 2nd throw is an illegal forward pass. Unless the center makes an attempt to catch it or does catch it it is not illegal touching.

[buckrog64]

MRH beat me to it, with the case book play about a pass hitting a lineman in the back. We had this same thing happen Friday night but called intentional grounding because the QB was under duress and was unloading the ball to avoid loss of yardage, etc. It does help to stop and think once in awhile.