2009 NFHS Football Questionnaire

[Robert Goodman]

PART III — ABOUT RULES FOR 2010 – WOULD YOU FAVOR?
1. Double fouls when the ball is dead would offset as opposed to separate and in order.

That would require definition of the interval enclosing the separate fouls of a dead ball double foul. After the first foul, I could see various possible times to draw the line where an opposing foul could offset it, but some of them would be fuzzy and all would depend to some degree on how quickly they were administered. And would it work like live ball double fouls, such that the distance penalty for any number of fouls by one team would be canceled by one foul on the other?

So what the change would do would be eliminate the tough call of a bang-bang pair of dead ball fouls with a spot close to a goal line (as to which occurred first), at the cost of possibly introducing another tough call when the fouls are separated more in time.