Patriot74

5 hours ago, Bobref said:

We have a saying: “If it’s going to look ugly either way, you might as well get it right.” Having said that, there is no provision in the rule book that permits throwing the flag for a live ball foul retroactively, after the ball has subsequently been made ready for play.

By the way, I lived through almost exactly the scenario you described, except it was for the winning score in OT, and it was a “covered” tight end who caught the TD. We swallowed hard, apologized, and lived with it. To this day, there is a Hall of Fame coach who left NWI for Warren Central and then Avon, who reminds me of that play every time I see him. It happened in 1987.

Thank you for the incite.  I thought the play should stand because no flags were thrown. There was no real good explanation for what transpired.  Thank you again. 

I have a question. Team A is on offense and lines up in a shotgun spread set, but lines up without enough men on the line of scrimmage. No flags are thrown, no official sees the error. Team A scores a touchdown on the play.  Points on the board, ball set for PAT. Team B’s head coach is going crazy at the official on his sideline about the missed call. After several minutes of uncertainty, sideline official approaches white hat, and they talk. White then signals for illegal formation, takes points off the board and replay the down.  With no flags thrown, is this a legal or legit decision?? Please help

Here is my take on the "concern" some may have with the media, and the papers, and the talk by some of the players and coaches at HH.  Yes there has been quite a bit of talk about the importance of the Mt. Vernon game.  Yes it may be putting a bit of pressure on the HH players and staff to back up the talk.  But in a program like HH there is pressure on every game to win.  That pressure is called expectations!  Expectations from the staff, expectations from the community, expectations from the players, the expectation to win every game.  That is what builds programs into dominant programs......expectations of being great.  The past two season HH has started their season 0-1 after week one!!  So in my opinion, players and coaches are talking this week about Mt. Vernon, and the importance of winning that game.  The next week if they are asked they will be talking about Tell City!!  It is what it is....new week, new opponent and the expectation to win that game.