The coach confessed!

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

I've seen Duke do something similar for two years now. Everyone gets set, and on QB signal, the TE comes out of 3 pt stance to a complete stand, all WRs break their stance, RBs stand, and QB comes out from center to look at sidelines for signals. I mean it is all at the same exact time, the first time I saw them do it last year it totally surprised me. I've seen a few other college teams do similar things.

Last year Duke did it about 80% of the time, this year, not as much, but they still do it from time to time. I haven't seen it flagged once.

This is becoming very common with teams who use more of a Air Raid-type West Coast offense. The officials won't flag this action as a false start or illegal shift because all they're doing is coming out of their stance (which these positions can because they're not covered) to receive a signal from the sideline. We had this in a FED game, and we didn't flag it either, because nothing they did fit any of the definitions of false start or illegal shift.