ART. 2 . . . No team shall repeatedly commit fouls which halve the distance to
the goal line

By this rule it would be after 8 kicks OOB.

Glad you're not on the field. That is NOT what this rule is about.

js: you hear all sorts of stuff from all sorts of people in this 'business.' Last week I had a freshman coach inform me that there was no longer a difference in facemasking penalties between 5 or 15 yards. All were now 15. Another official had told him so. Hmmm, ok.

I think you half the distance if it was butt-blocking.;)

NCAA rule. No incidental. It's either 15 or nothing.

Fed experimented with this in Oregon a few years back. Not sure if it still is in effect.

As the R - I'm against it. :)

Thanks, the issue was another coach I know was kicking the ball out of bounds at the end of the half to keep the other team from returning the kick for a TD. He thought there was a limit on the number of times you could make the kicking team rekick. The officials that night said no and he had to kick in bounds and the return team scored a TD. I asked an official at my game the following week as did he and we got two different answers.

I personally don't like the rule against K kicking the ball out of bounds. If you have a kid that can kick the ball OOB inside the 5 yl, he should not be penalized for R not being able to field it first.

If the makers of the game at higher levels really want to reduce the amount of bodies flying into each other at high speed on the free kick runbacks, as it seems they've wanted to do recently, they should adopt rugby's rule of having the kick to go out of bounds be legal as long as it touches the ground or a player first. Team R would concentrate more on protecting the sidelines, which would spread them out more, and kicks would be lower and aimed toward sidelines more often, so you'd have less of players taking a long run at each other down the middle with a wedge of blockers.