NCAA muff question

[AUgrad2006]

Originally Posted by sloth

If the reciever muffs the ball (in either a free kick or a scrimmage kick and either in the field of play or the end zone) the ball is not declaired dead until either the ball is possesed by a player or goes OOB...

Just to be clear it's not dead when the player possesses it, but when he is down by rule (e.g. he is tackled or takes a knee). He still has the opportunity to run it out and later get his butt chewed by the coach.

I'm sure that's what you meant but just wanted to be clear.

[sloth]

Thanks for the clarification...that was what I ment. In my mental scenario I have the reciever muffing the ball on the one or two yard line and it rolling around in the end zone. In FED it doesn't matter what happens, it gets kiklled as soon as it crosses the plane. I was having one of those cases where the FED rules stuck in my brain were making me doubt what the NCAA rules were. My supervisor would not be happy if I killed a muffed free kick prior to going OOB or recovery.

Thanks again for the clarification!

sloth