Whose Ball Following This Play

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by CT1

I hope you meant "K's ball".

This is realistically a COP play, and the LOD aspect of the penalty has no effect.

When did team possession change?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

When did team possession change?

No need to be obtuse... he didn't say possession changed, he said it was realistically a COP play. Probably not the best word, I'd have gone with essentially instead of realistically. But you know what he meant.

(And if you don't ... answer my question, I was going to the same place he was, I was just trying to walk the poster there instead of just giving the answer).

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

No need to be obtuse... he didn't say possession changed, he said it was realistically a COP play. Probably not the best word, I'd have gone with essentially instead of realistically. But you know what he meant.

Actually I didn't, but if i'd been more awake when I read it, I would've. I'd misread a detail of what he wrote, got onto the wrong track.

[CT1]

Evidently, I should have used the phrase "For enforcement purposes, this is a COP play".

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Actually I didn't, but if i'd been more awake when I read it, I would've. I'd misread a detail of what he wrote, got onto the wrong track.

Cool.

[mtridge]

If it a complete pass to K79 do we take ignore the OPI and take IFP or vica verca?

[dvasques]

Ok... I know the original question was Federation rules but since I'm back and still working IFAF/NCAA rules here in Brasil, I gotta ask about this situation...
muffed kick beyond NZ bounces back behind NZ, R picks it up and passes forward from behind NZ

That's a legal pass in NCAA/IFAF?

[CT1]

Originally Posted by mtridge

If it a complete pass to K79 do we take ignore the OPI and take IFP or vica verca?

No, you don't ignore it. But you do call the correct foul.

If K79 has done nothing other than catch the ball, it's Illegal Touching, not OPI.

Same penalty yardage, although the basic spot for the IT would be the previous spot. You still can't enforce the LOD provision.

[mtridge]

It would be a OPI. Case book 7.5.13 If ineligible catches the ball beyond the LOS it is OPI

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by mtridge

It would be a OPI. Case book 7.5.13 If ineligible catches the ball beyond the LOS it is OPI

Not OPI. NFHS fixed this case play in the 2012 interps.

Page 61, *7.5.13 SITUATION A: Ineligible receiver A2 is behind, in or beyond his neutral zone and has committed no act against a defender that could be considered pass interference when a forward pass by A1: (a) accidentally strikes him in the back; or (b) is muffed by him; or (c) is caught by him. RULING: In (a), there is no foul for illegal touching. In (b) and (c), it is illegal touching. and if beyond the line of scrimmage, would also be offensive pass interference. The acts in both (b) and (c) are intentional and not accidental as in (a). COMMENT: Game officials should be very clear in explaining penalty options if the same act constitutes more than one foul as listed above, as each of the fouls has a different penalty.

NFHS | 2012 NFHS Football Rules Interpretations