LOD penalty on 4th Down

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by tjones1

It's actually both illegal touching and OPI if beyond the LOS.

Possibly Illegal man downfield too.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Possibly Illegal man downfield too.

Indeed, good point.

[buckrog64]

I'm guessing that's why there was so much confusion; they had a little of everything on that play.

[Welpe]

Illegal touching is not OPI. That was an old case play the Fed slipped back in. They rescinded it via a memo on the website.

[maven]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Illegal touching is not OPI. That was an old case play the Fed slipped back in. They rescinded it via a memo on the website.

Link: NFHS | 2012 NFHS Football Rules Interpretations

[tjones1]

Hmmmm interesting.

Our crew had this three weeks ago and I talked them out of OPI (I had no doubts).

So when I saw this thread I pulled up the book on Arbiter and saw this ruling and was a little surprised and sent an e-mail to my crew saying I owed them a root beer. Sending a new e-mail this morning... glad I don't owe. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[HLin NC]

We seem to be averaging about one post per week where an official didn't get the word about the resurrected, erroneous case play. NFHS, or more than likely state supervisors, did a poor job of spreading the word. I don't know too many guys that go to the NF site since they killed the old officiating forum there.