re: Rules question re Alabama's on-side kick

NCAA Rules Interpretations

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SECTION 18. Encroachment and Offside

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Offside occurs when one or more players of the kicking team are not behind their restraining line when the ball is legally free-kicked.(Exception: The kicker and holder are not offside when they are beyond their restraining line.)

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The rules on intentional ground includes language that it is being done to prevent a loss of yards from a sack. Spiking the ball to stop the clock isn't being done to stop a loss of yards.

There is an exception for the holder so that he's not down when he kneels. There was a lot of discussion of this back when Les was the coach and we ran a fake where the holder (Flynn) blindly threw it over his shoulder to the kicker (David).

Fake FG