Kick, receive or defer revisited

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

There are some here who assume Federation rules in answering any question, because more games are played under that rule set than any other. I'd like to point out that probably the majority (not just plurality) of all games of American football played are of youth football.

Just curious, but what's your point here?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Just curious, but what's your point here?

My point is that the previous poster treated youth football as exceptional, when, statistically, it should be considered the default, if there is one, by the same justif'n some people take Fed rules to be the default.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

My point is that the previous poster treated youth football as exceptional, when, statistically, it should be considered the default, if there is one, by the same justif'n some people take Fed rules to be the default.

Oh. OK. So ALL OF THE REST OF US are at the wrong forum. Only you are in the right place.

Perhaps you'd be better off finding (or starting) a forum about youth football. The rules for youth football are different all over the country. I (and likely many other officials here) have little or no interest in visiting a site to discuss rules and situations when the rules would not apply to our own situations - ever. It may be the majority of football... but we have no common frame of reference as officials when you're talking about youth football. The topic of ALMOST every post is based on NFL, NCAA, or FED rules - the "default" as you call it, should be one of those.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Perhaps you'd be better off finding (or starting) a forum about youth football.

I linked to a thread in one, guess you didn't notice.

The rules for youth football are different all over the country.

True, but irrelevant to this discussion, because we're already assuming the same choices to start the halves as in the current major codes. In this case it's not a rules difference at issue, just that a poster upthread wrote that the game tactics are often different from what you'd expect at higher levels.

[Adam]

Personally, i would be less inclined to allow the captains to screw this up in a youth FB game, not more.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

My point is that the previous poster treated youth football as exceptional, when, statistically, it should be considered the default, if there is one, by the same justif'n some people take Fed rules to be the default.

Statistically in what way? The average poster here is not an average youth official. We may have people who work youth games, but the "average" poster here, I would guess, is a HS official. Working NFHS or NCAA rules.