NCAA ball hits the rafters

[parepat]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Not dogpiling... but why? Do you do something differently if it's headed out of bounds than you do if it's not?

Yes. Since I have to chop the spot where a punt goes out of bounds on the fly, it helps if I know where the ball goes out of bounds. To know whether the ball is heading out of bounds, I take a quick look at the direction of its flight. If I see it heading out of bounds, I'll follow it to give a reasonably good spot.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by parepat

Yes. Since I have to chop the spot where a punt goes out of bounds on the fly, it helps if I know where the ball goes out of bounds. To know whether the ball is heading out of bounds, I take a quick look at the direction of its flight. If I see it heading out of bounds, I'll follow it to give a reasonably good spot.

OK. I'll watch it on a shank... but on most punts, I watch my kicker, move to my spot (where the kick was from), watch the cleanup area for cheap shots, and then find the ball - using the actions of the players to guide me. I doubt I would ever see the ball before it's at least halfway down.

[Robert Goodman]

If the game is indoors, where there's no wind, couldn't you just draw a line from the spot of the kick to where it landed to determine where it went out of bounds? That is, if it wasn't a soccer style place kick that would typically have inswing.