Simultaneous Possession?

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Originally Posted by KWH

What seems to be missing is this was a NFHS high school game played in Pennsylvania under NFHS Rules using PIAA 6-man mechaincs. NFHS ruling on a simultanious catch would apply as would PIAA 6-Man mechanics. PIAA 6-Man mechanics has the HL staying on the LOS and the LJ drifting downfield. (See attached link.)

http://www.piaa.org/assets/web/docum...nic_manual.pdf

KW

One minor point. This was a WPIAL crew, so they were almost certainly using CCA mechanics. The PIAA issued their manual last year. But the WPIAL, as well as many others of us in western PA who had been using CCA, stuck with CCA, and for good reason: the PIAA mechanics are based on 25 year old PAC-10 mechanics and in some respects just plain bad. It led to a big fight between the WPIAL and the PIAA (or another big fight, since they have many). It may have been why no WPIAL crew got a state championship game last year. The PIAA reissued their mechanics again this year with a stern warning to use them. Many of us think that's just the PIAA's way of sticking it to the WPIAL, especially since WPIAL opposition effectively killed a PIAA plan to go to six football classifications from four.

One way I think you can tell they're using CCA is how long it takes the BJ to come into view. In CCA, when the ball is thrown he's at the goal line pylon opposite the SJ. That appears to be where he comes from. If they had been using PIAA, he would have been inside the hash and probably near the end line. (And if he's inside the hash and near the end line, who's covering the LJ's goal line pylon, you ask? You guessed it, the LJ, from 10 yards away, just like 5-man. I said they're bad!).