what do you have???

[Canned Heat]

If it bumbles along on the ground back to the QB, no different than a lousy snap from a long snapper to a punter, except with less air time.....it stays live.

There are 2 programs that still run wing T around here with the backs all cuddled up behind center and the ball rarely makes it to the backs without it NOT hitting the ground and maybe never gets in the air. I've never seen anyone kill it ever, nor have I.

My honest opinion is some of you really try hard to read way too far into a rule and dissect it....just my 2 cents. Do what you do or what you've done...if the ball moves backwards away from the LOS, it's a live ball if/when it leaves the snapper's hand(s).

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Canned Heat

Posed two scenarios to our head football guy in WI at the WIAA....my question followed by his response.


[I]If the center (A55) snapped the ball back and it went; a) went straight back along the ground, loose bouncing back to the QB (A12) without getting airborne at all.

Is there some punctuation or something missing? How could it be at the same time "straight back along the ground", "without getting airborne at all", and yet "bouncing"? Was "rolling" or "skidding" meant rather than bouncing, or were these supposed to have been separate cases?

[Canned Heat]

Rolling from hand backward at snap..never being elevated at any time.

Written in a hurry...should've composed it better.