Using flip boards to call no huddle-Legal?

[HLin NC]

I'd say a flip board is about as lo-tech as you can get, unless you want to write it on poster board with a Sharpie.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

I'd say a flip board is about as lo-tech as you can get, unless you want to write it on poster board with a Sharpie.

Exactly. Or shall we ban hand signals, too? Hands are communication devices...

[ajmc]

This sounds like an example of why basic common sense and logic are such important qualities needed in officials

Originally Posted by mbyron

Exactly. Or shall we ban hand signals, too? Hands are communication devices...

Exactly, hands are communication devices. Banning hand signals would handicap the teams from the schools for the deaf.

BTW, flipcharts were my favorite "steals" when I was working on a college coaching staff when I was in school. One team was using colored charts and hand signals, and by observing them and the plays they ran on the first drive or two, I had their entire scheme figured out. Our defense clamped down on them, but our offense couldn't capitalize. We lost by 2 after missing a field goal late in the game.

[umpirebob71]

Isn't the object pictured a scoreboard?

[bigjohn]

It is a scoreboard but it is being used as a communication/coaching aid by many spread-no huddle teams.

[umpirebob71]

To tell them what...the score? As usual, you bring a knife to a gunfight.