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re: Serious Question for Officials
Posted on 10/12/20 at 9:24 am to War Eagle 777
Posted on 10/12/20 at 9:24 am to War Eagle 777
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why can't you spike the ball if you fumble the snap?
You can. You just can't some the ball backwards.
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Posted on 10/12/20 at 10:08 am to CaptainBrannigan
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You can. You just can't some the ball backwards.
No. You cannot spike the ball after a fumble. The intentional grounding call would have been correct except for the fact that it was a backwards pass.
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Posted on 10/12/20 at 10:30 am to CaptainBrannigan
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why can't you spike the ball if you fumble the snap?
You can. You just can't some the ball backwards.
re: spiking after a fumble, I think the idea is, it's a non-play. Offense concedes a down to stop the clock, but is required to execute it cleanly to get that.
Think baseball, intentional walk with a runner on 3rd. You simply concede that batter and put him on 1st, nobody gets "live action". I almost think the rules have recently changed at some levels, to where you can tell the umpire that and they send the guy to 1st base.
That, compared to throwing the pitch, and risking a passed ball or wild pitch, or a balk- which allows the guy to score from 3rd.
What Auburn did was basically a passed ball, and should have negated the "clock it" option. If it's not in the rule book, it needs to be. Otherwise, they should just go ahead and make it a rule that you can line up and concede the down and 1 second, in order to get a clock stoppage. Bigger penalty (maybe 5 yds and/or a few seconds more), if you don't line up to do it.
I don't like the concept, but if that's the intent, go ahead and do it.
Regarding the actual spike, the ball and/or motion must go forward. It went backwards in this case, that needs to be a live ball. Period, end of discussion.
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