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  1. From the UIL Guidelines for Bands Playing during Football Games. UIL Football games are conducted under NCAA Rules. As it relates to when a band may play during the game, the NCAA Football Rule Book states: Persons subject to the rules, including bands, shall not create any noise that prohibits a team from hearing its signals (NCAA Rule 1-1-6 and UIL Rule 9-2-1-b-5). PENALTY—Dead-ball foul. 15 yards from the succeeding spot [S7 and S27]. Automatic first down for fouls by Team B if not in conflict with other rules. Flagrant offenders, if players or substitutes, shall be disqualified [S47]. To assist with compliance, consider the following procedures: • Have the band stop playing from the time the Offense (of either team) breaks the huddle until the ball is snapped. • Or, in the case of Offenses that do not huddle, have the band stop playing from the time the Center on Offense is over the ball until the ball is snapped. This may necessitate creating shorter versions of some music, as is common practice with college bands. A drum line playing throughout the game generally does not prohibit a team from hearing its signals – use your discretion. Although most officials do warn a band prior to calling a penalty, they are not required to do so. Consider discussing this matter with your head football coach, athletic director, and/or school administration to determine a plan that is appropriate for your school.
  2. There is some good info in this thread and some erroneous info as well. First these angles are terrible to show anything definitively. To say otherwise is not being truthful, you can suppose and theorize but you cannot say with certainty. You really have to be looking right down the line otherwise the camera angles will artificially adjust your perception. The officials have a split second to see this and make a determination. Unfortunately they don’t have the ability to rewind, pause, zoom, analyze frame by frame, etc it isn’t as easy as it would seem sitting behind a 70” HDTV or 24” computer monitor. The statement on mechanics of where the line of scrimmage officials “should” be is correct, both, on this play, should be on the goalline looking right at this. To clear up any confusion, when the ball is going into the end zone only the plane of the front of the goalline must be broken by some part of the ball, when going out, the opposite is true. The ENTIRE ball must be beyond the front plane of the goalline to NOT be a safety, that only makes sense, if any part puts it in, it would stand to reason that the inverse would be true to get it out. All that being said, it doesn’t appear as though the runner advanced far enough to get the entire ball out of the end zone, however, if instant replay was used in this case, with these angles the play would “stand” either way, because there is no indisputable video evidence to overturn what the officials ruled on the field. We spend too much time nitpicking officials expecting them to be perfect when they, at all levels, are adjudicating games played by imperfect players taught by imperfect coaches who both make countless mistakes during a single game. Most action takes place in a fraction of a second, that you have to go frame by frame to discern, the human brain is a powerful thing, but it didn’t come with a pause and rewind button.
  3. That’s the best course of action, anytime a player does something like that, it makes an official make a decision... or several... and one of those leads to a foul. Also, it was a scrimmage, the coach could have very well told the crew to be very strict on conduct type fouls to teach players of what could happen throughout the season. Each official is different and has different tolerance levels on taunting type fouls, you don’t want to be in a big game when it matters and have something silly like that to potentially impact your team, when it accomplishes nothing.
  4. Depends... if he is directing it at an opponent or to show up an opponent, yes.... also depends on the tenor of the game, if it is heated there may be less leniency given to keep things under control.
  5. Only change in the kicking game is on free kicks (kick offs) where a two man wedge is now illegal.
  6. There are three that will cause a lot of confusion and irritation going forward. 1) 10 sec runoff. This is going to be a point of confusion for fans, players, coaches, clock operators and officials regarding when it does and doesn’t apply. First of all the clock has to be running... it has to be under 1m in the 2nd or 4th periods, and the foul has to stop the clock immediately. Just because there is a foul on the play doesn’t automatically create a 10 sec runoff situation, the foul has to immediately stop the clock, false start, defense offside with contact, there are really just a few that apply. Most do not, holding or DPI for example do not open the door for a 10 sec runoff. Other situations that could bring the possibility... helmet off or injury. Same deal, clock has to be running, under a minute, and the helmet off or injury has to be the ONLY reason the clock is stopped. If a team got a first down and had a player get injured, no 10 sec... because the injury wasn’t the ONLY reason the clock stopped. 2) Blind side blocks... the big blow up blocks where the opponent doesn’t see the hit coming... are all fouls IF the block is delivered with force and in an attacking manner. This is very similar to the Federation rule that was put in several years ago but since we play NCAA rules, there is a little difference... Big blow up crack back blocks... foul... change of direction blocks with big blow ups... foul... this one is going to be big as it is such a culture change at all levels. 3) Targeting. This will cause the most confusion with everyone, because the UIL wrote this rule themselves, so no where else other than Texas HS will it be exactly this way. There are two “levels” of targeting in Texas HS FB, flagrant and non-flagrant. A player, if called for a flagrant Targeting, is ejected immediately as has been the case in the past. However, now a player can be called for non-flagrant targeting, in that case he can be called for two of those in a game, then he is disqualified. Here is the official NCAA rules change video, some doesn’t apply to the Texas HS game but a lot does. Think of the non-flagrant targeting as what is referred to in the video as a foul, that with replay, now would not stand, and a flagrant as one that would be confirmed.
  7. A Chop Block, by rule, and by definition is a foul anywhere on the field. What you may call a “chop” and what a Chop Block is “by rule” are likely different. By definition in the rule book a chop block is any combination of high/Lo blocks at the same time on the same player. So any high/low bock is a Chop Block. A block below the waist is just that, and is one component of a Chop Block. You May hear it called a low bock, a cut Block, a Chop, etc, but in rules discussions it is simply referred to as a Block below the waist.
  8. Defensive restrictions on low blocks is unchanged from previous years. They have been limited to 5 yards on each side of the neutral zone for years. Also interior linemen inside the tackle box are not subject to the 10/2 requirement as long as neither they nor the ball have been outside the tackle box. Once either of those events occur, they then are required to be within 10/2 as well.
  9. Google is your friend... http://www.uiltexas.org/files/music/Guidelines_for_Bands_Playing_during_Football_Games.pdf
  10. Never has been the case in HS. Too much liability. Jr High plays under the same rule set, all sorts of issues could arise regarding supervision, etc... for instance, Team Tigers 7th grade team has one coach.. and they are on the road at Team Lions. Tiger #64 gets disqualified. If he has to leave the field... now what? Go sit on the bus? Well #64 wanders off and is never seen again... stranger things have happened and no thanks...
  11. No penalty for uniform unless they refuse to fix or refuse to leave the game... which is not likely. Also realize that officials don’t write the rules or necessarily enjoy being uniform police. There are bigger fish to fry, but the rules makers (coaches) and powers that be have determined that it should be a point of emphasis. So here we go..
  12. There were several threads on this topic earlier in the season so here are several thoughts to points made thus far 1) replay should be used for the SC’s. They are all in Jerry World, they are all televised, and all they would really need to do would be to hire replay officials from the Area to cover the games. If they are going to slow mo replay on the Jumbo TV they can correct anything that needs to be corrected. 2) the process at that venue wouldn’t be complicated and the officials really wouldn’t have to have that much knowledge of the process as the college replay official could take most of that burden. 3) replay at every school in Texas is impossible.. D2/d3 teams only use replay during the semifinals and finals because it is EXPENSIVE to implement. You would have to have in house TV production at every school, there are at least 4 additional bodies that are needed outside that for working the replay system itself, one of which at every stadium would be a replay official that would have to actually know what is and what isn’t reviewable. 4) the entire organization that covers football is aging and not being replaced at a rapid enough pace to keep up with the ever increasing number of schools that need to be covered or even to really maintain current demand. There are a myriad of factors that have led to this, but the bottom line is that the younger generations in general don’t see it as something they want to do in their free time. You could make as much $ going to work at Buccee’s a few nights a week, be inside, not have people yelling at you, many times for no good reason, etc etc.. 5) if you are concerned about the quality and fitness of the officials in ANY sport, I am pretty sure that there is an open door for you to join and show all of those folks that do go out there and subject themselves to your ridicule how it’s done.
  13. Replay should absolutely be used in the State Championship games. There are more than enough D1 officials that could help with this aspect, as it was alluded to previously, if the fan sitting there watching the Giant TV can see that there was an error there is no reason it shouldn’t be fixed. It is ludicrous that this hasn’t been addressed yet and fixed.
  14. False, maybe, in either case the game clock starts on the ready if this was outside 2M left in the half. Since the play ended in bounds, after a first down the game clock starts when the ball is ready for play. After a penalty, the clock starts on the rfp unless the clock was stopped for some other reason. Since we weren’t given the score we don’t know, but if team A was behind they could elect the clock to start on the snap rather than the rfp after the penalty. False, all players were set initially. Two or more players can shift however all must be set again for 1 second prior to the snap to be legal. We also can only use information given, since A22 wasn’t mentioned to be an abrupt step we have to assume that his step was smooth and didn’t simulate the start of the play. False, not targeting. For that blow to be deemed targeting, the recipient would have to be defenseless by rule, he is a runner and by rule NOT defenseless. So the only way he can be “targeted” would be if a defender led with the crown of his helmet, but that contact could be anywhere and not exclusive to the head.. ps there is no foul for helmet to helmet contact True, the basic spot on a Touchback in this case is the 20. Since foul was behind basic spot in A foul is enforced at spot of foul, and foul was in advance of basic in b it is from basic A) ball is returned to the spot of the fumble and B has the option of taking the ball there or replaying B) ball is dead at spot where whistle was blown and B has the choice to take that spot or replay the down c) same answer as B, nothing different here. if the whistle had blown before B established possession of a kick, the only option would be to rekick.
  15. Never, ever, ever flag the band.... it is certainly in the rules and it has been done, but there are a lot of rules that are not strictly enforced. In HS football, this is one of them. Now... the schools should be informed of the infraction... the game administrator, but don’t be that guy.
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