Time Elapsing After an Offensive Penalty

[TXMike]

With regards to the clock after a penalty whne the team is in a scrimmage kick formation, that only applies to a delay of game penalty. Ex: Texas is preparing to punt and the clock is running. A Texas lineman false starts. The clock is stopped, the yards stepped off, and the clock will be restarted. We do talk about this kind of situation in our clinics and generall speaking, if the officials think the false start (or any other foul for that matter) was done to unfairly consume (or conserve) time, we will not permitthe team to do so. So, if in the example I just gave, the ref determines the false start was done so they could get a new 25 second clock and be able to run 25 more seconds off the clock, then the clock would NOT be restarted. It would be a real stretch to say that the receiver committed offensive pass interference because he did not want the pass to be incomplete and stop the clock. He committed pass interference because he wanted to catch the ball and make the yardage.