JustRules

It's supposed to be required in NCAA as well (and I assume NFL), but the latest fad is definitely having the dangling mouth piece. It used to be players who had a second one in their mouth and one either stuck in their face mask or dangling, but they gave up no the one in the mouth. Unfortunately the D1 guys are told to not be uniform police, so they rarely enforce anything uniform related. Nobody wants to see you send out Mendoza on a key 3rd down play because he failed to put in his mouthpiece before the previous snap. I don't agree with this, but we see it all the time. And small college and high school players are copy cats. The mouth piece is an easy one that should be enforced at all levels.

They only had 2 time outs remaining. Absent that foul, the other team would have been able to kneel out the game on the 3rd down play. I assume they still took the 2 knees assuming the punt would pin the other team deeper. They did not expect to shank the punt that far. Losing the 5 yards on each kneel down definitely hurt them as well.

I've always assumed the way NIL will work for HS students is for agents to get connected with HS athletes so they can represent them on their college NIL. Not so much to recruit kids to play at a certain HS (unless it's part of their college recruiting). I could be wrong.

The part Bob answers is correct for both NCAA and NFHS. They are dealt with the same in both codes. The other situation like this is if the receiver steps OOB accidentally with no contact from a defender. Per HS rules, if the receiver does this, he's guilty of illegal participation the moment he steps back in bounds. If he does this while running down the sideline he technically commits the foul every time he steps out of bounds with one foot and then steps in bounds with the other foot. Enforcement is 15 yards from the previous spot and replay the down. He doesn't need to actually participate in order for the foul to occur. It's a very severe penalty. The NCAA rule is different. It only turns into a foul if the receiver is the first to touch a legal forward pass. If the ball isn't throw to him or the pass it tipped by the defense before he touches it. there is no foul. The penalty though if he is the first to touch it is a loss of down at the previous spot. It's essentially treated like an incomplete pass. The ball remains live however. If the receiver tips it, and it's caught by a defender or he catches it and subsequently fumbles and recovered by the defense, it's a turnover. The NCAA officials will drop their hat when they see the receiver go OOB to indicate he saw the receiver go OOB and knows how he got there. Any potential foul is delayed. You'll see some HS officials do the same thing, but it's not necessary. It's either a foul when he returns (went out on his own or didn't return immediately when forced out) and you throw your flag or it's not a foul (forced out and returned immediately) and no flag is thrown.

Think of charter schools as under-funded public schools. Most of the charter schools in Indy are in the IPS district. The schools themselves often do well, but their athletics struggle. Especially in football where numbers matter.

Purdue Poly and Tindley are charter schools and not private schools.

When this was set up, 5A was designated as the class that would have any extra schools if the number is above 320 (that was true at the time they made that change). I like the idea of 1A being the other team with 32 schools. Which one do you propose takes the extra teams if we have more than 320 teams?

True, but there are crews who are good enough to work a first or second round game but don't get it because there are not enough spots. This creates at least a few more spots for them to have an opportunity. No ranking system is a true level of quality of the crew. I would say it's a pretty good general approximation though. The first quadrant is generally better than the second quadrant. And the 4th quadrant either struggles enough the coaches are consistently giving them lower rating or they have new guys or guys missing meetings or not doing well on the test impacting their overall rating score. This process makes it possible for those crews to get a chance to earn a tournament game credit. With that, I still know a couple very good and competent crews who sat home week 1 for various reasons.

And that ranking contains a fair amount of subjectivity to it due to the coach vote being 40% of it. Just because a crew is ranked 10th doesn't necessarily mean they are the 10th best crew. Some could objectively argue the 40th ranked crew is better than the 10th ranked crew. There are more than 6 crews more than qualified to do an excellent job working a state final. And even if you rotated the same 6 crews every 4 years, there are more than 24 crews more than qualified to do an excellent job. This rotational system does give more qualified crews the opportunity to reach the highest level. That being said, the system works to generally get very good crews to the state finals every years. There is a lot of variability in the quality of crews around the state, but the ones working Thanksgiving weekend are generally pretty good.

The reason for that is to allow additional crews to work the first and second round that otherwise might not have a chance. That creates up to 6 more opportunities for those crews which is excellent. Otherwise those crews wouldn't get credit for working a tournament and not having 3 members of your crew without 5 tournament assignments in 6 years puts you way behind everyone else. There are a few very good crews with newer officials who still can't get first round games because of that.

in your example, the coach yelling would be considered a substitution or simulated substitution so it would meet the requirements of an illegal participation. Based on Bobref's comment from the conversation with the referee, nothing like what you described happened.

A key aspect of this definition is you never see the word "center". There is no mention of the traditional positions in the rule book. The snapper is the person who snaps the ball. There is no center, guard, tackle, quarterback, etc.

Between this play and the last play of the LC-LN game, fans are learning a lot about the rules. Glad the crews got them both right on the field.

It would make for a very good conference. Would love to see Cathedral in it as well.

I've worked games where the football game was just a pre and post-band performance filler. The band attracts more fans than the football team.