Penalty on scoring play?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

This is no revelation. The rule change was imposed originally for field goals and tries and then worked its way to touchdowns. The NFHS perceived too many "free shots", primarily by B, to foul against a scoring opponent where the scoring team was having to decline a foul to keep the score. They are trying to "disincentivize" fouling for the sake of stopping a score.

I guess for consistencies sake, they decided to make it all fouls rather than just personal fouls.

I could live with changing it to PF's too.

If not just PF's and USC's, at least get rid of interference. Interference is a spot foul with no distance other than a maximum. You can easily have pass interference on a 2-yard TD, which would be a 1 yard penalty in reality - which then converts to a 15-yarder on the kickoff. That's just wrong.