Legal Snap?

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by Welpe

In a pre-game conference with a middle school coach this year, he said he had a trick play where the QB goes in motion.

I said "OK, is that it?"

He said, "Well, I'll yell over to him something along 'Come on, that's not the play!' then he'll go in motion and we'll snap it."

Me: "Sorry coach, not legal."

Him: "I guess we won't run that this week."

Had a coach run this play in an 8th grade game this season... only he didn't tell us about it beforehand. Luckily for me, when I flagged it, enforced it, and explained it to him, all he said was "huh, I didn't know that".

He also ran a fumblerooski play a couple of times. One that I didn't call because I didn't see what happened (only two officials, not enough eyes) and couldn't tell what had transpired until I was reconstructing it in my mind during the next timeout, and one that I passed on because that team was down 42-0 at the time. I did, however, explain to the coach that his play wasn't legal.