Where to enforce?

[kdf5]

Originally Posted by insatty

Kdf5: Whether there was a pass or not, it was still a pass play (NCAA)/loose-ball play (NFHS). Consider this play: QB drops back to pass and primary receiver is pulled down by defender; QB is sacked. Enforce DH from previous spot because this was a pass play/loose-ball play.

Here is the definition of a loose ball play (NF):

10-3-1.... A loose-ball play is action during:
a. A free kick or scrimmage kick, other than those defined in 2-33-1a.
b. A legal forward pass.
c. A backward pass (including the snap), illegal kick or fumble made by A
from in or behind the neutral zone and prior to a change of team possession.
NOTE: The run(s) which precedes such legal or illegal kick, legal forward pass, backward pass or fumble is (are) considered part of the action during a loose-ball play.

It doesn't say it's a loose ball play simply because the QB called a passing play in the huddle, the pass actually has to happen for you to classify it as a LBP. If the passer gets off a pass then when the smoke clears, everything between the snap and the subsequent catch or the ball hitting the ground or getting intercepted is part of a loose ball play.