scrimmage kick penalty inforcement question

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by kdf5

Since R got the ball with clean hands and since this is during the return, R can decline the FM and keep the ball but K will accept the holding and the holding will be enforced under the ABO. If R accepts the FM then you have a double foul. Since this happened after the kick ended, the bean bag (the end of the kick) wouldn't be an enforcement spot. The only reason K would decline the hold would be if this play was the last play of the half or game. By declining, K would end the game or half since there wasn't an accepted penalty by either team.

+1, with a tiny quibble

Options:

1. R: do you want the ball? If yes, they must decline FM and we check with K; if no, double foul, replay the down (rekick).

2. If R declines FM: K chooses whether to accept the penalty for R's foul. Ordinarily they'll take the penalty, which is enforced from either the end of the run or the spot of the foul (ABO, as kdf5 said), depending on whether the foul occurred beyond the end of the run.

Tiny quibble: if R wanted to extend the period with an untimed down, they wouldn't give K a chance to end the game: they'd accept the penalty for K's foul, create a double foul situation, and we'd play one untimed.