• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Her Loyal Sons

A Notre Dame Football Blog

  • Home
  • Discord
  • ND Bowl Tie-Ins
  • Merch
  • Extra Life
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
    • RSS
Home > College Football > The NCAA Hatessssssses the Rugby Style Kicker

The NCAA Hatessssssses the Rugby Style Kicker

July 23, 2009 by domer.mq

HT: Conquest Chronicles

New Rule:

If a punter carries the ball outside the tackle box before he kicks on a “rugby-style kick,” there will be no roughing the kicker violation this season.

There is also a rule change regarding offensive formations. In the past, the rule stated that a team must have at least seven players on the line. The new rule now says a team may have no more than four players in the backfield. This is supposed to make it easier for officials.

Excellent. Because I hates me some me rugby-style punting.

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
domer.mq
Latest posts by domer.mq (see all)
  • HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-15 - November 15, 2009
  • HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-08 - November 8, 2009
  • HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-01 - November 1, 2009

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email

Filed Under: College Football

About domer.mq

Previous Post: « Lou Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-b-ba-ba-baaaaa LOU!
Next Post: Friday Roundup: The “Things I Missed” Edition »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. trey

    July 23, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Does this rule:
    —
    There is also a rule change regarding offensive formations. In the past, the rule stated that a team must have at least seven players on the line. The new rule now says a team may have no more than four players in the backfield. This is supposed to make it easier for officials.

    —-
    Apply only to kicking formations? There’s nothing that I can read there that limits that. Can we assume there might now be an uber-wishbone with a QB, RB, and 2 FBs?

  2. Irish_Wertzy

    July 23, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    That rule is for non-kicking situations (which is covered under a different rule. This applies to the illegal formation call for not enough men on the line of scrimage. Now the refs only need to count to 4 instead of 7. Phew!

  3. BJDomer

    July 23, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    “At least seven players on the LOS” and “no more than four players in the backfield” mean exactly the same thing. Unless they mean that WRs don’t have to be on the LOS. In that case, you could run five wide, all off the LOS, and have three linemen slightly off the LOS, “in the backfield.” Since the two remaining linemen on the LOS wouldn’t be covered up, there could be 11 players eligible to receive a forward pass. But I don’t think that’s what this rule change means. I think it’s just a re-wording, and nothing will actually change.

  4. The Biscuit

    July 23, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    I love the no roughing the kicker deal on the rugby style kicks. It was a loophole that needed to be fixed. Now coaches won’t roll those guys out and keep coverage guys in check just to punt anyway. And if the dude doesn’t get it away? We flatten his @$$

  5. domer.mq

    July 23, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    I sort of assumed the 2nd part, about the 4 men in the backfield, was to cap over a loophole in non-kicking situations that A-11 type offenses might look to exploit, but I’m probably not thinking it through enough.

  6. DeepTeaKup

    July 24, 2009 at 12:56 am

    I don’t get the second part at all, the A11 style was already illegal in college. Does this allow for an offense to leave a tackle uncovered?

  7. RefMike

    July 24, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    The formation rule change was intended to cut out the cheap fouls that occur when a team mistakenly puts only 10 players in the game and they have 6 on the line and 4 in the backfield. Since the rule before required 7 on the line, refs flagged only 6 on the line, even though a team only had 10 in the game. This was nuts as the team got no advantage playing shorthanded. SO now, as long as the team ha sno more than 4 in the backfield, there is no flag for an illegal formation, no matter how many there are in the game. The change has nothing to do with the A11 or making more people eligible.

    Tackles could always be uncovered in the past and still can. They will be ineligible as long as they have an ineligible number, even if uncovered.

    The only time any semblance of the A11 can be used in NCAA games is when a team might obviously attempt a scrimmage kick.

  8. domer.mq

    July 27, 2009 at 9:58 am

    RefMike,

    Thanks. Appreciate the explanation. It’s such a rational decision that I don’t think I’d ever have come to that conclusion.

Primary Sidebar

Latest Podcast

Click here to support the pod!

Recent Posts

The Cowboy Beebop "See You Space Cowboy" ending title frame with the HLS logo.

Epilogue

HLS Podcast Finale

Manti Te'o Faux Cover

The Final Fiesta: Notre Dame vs Oklahoma State NCAA ’14 Sim

Penultimate Picks Pod

2021 Bowl Picks: Week 2

Copyright © 2023 · Foodie Pro & The Genesis Framework · Login

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.