According to his explanations, even if a penalty had been called on the alignment for the spike play with "1 second left" there would not have been a time runoff. I don't understand this. If that's truly the case, why not just send the fastest player to the line to spike it regardless of where everyone else is? Based on his explanation, you'd still get to run the next play after what would in essence be another clock stopage and a 5 yd penalty. What am I missing?

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Posted by I20goon

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Posted on 11/25/18 at 2:02 pm to lsufanz

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According to his explanations, even if a penalty had been called on the alignment for the spike play with "1 second left" there would not have been a time runoff. I don't understand this. If that's truly the case, why not just send the fastest player to the line to spike it regardless of where everyone else is? Based on his explanation, you'd still get to run the next play after what would in essence be another clock stopage and a 5 yd penalty. What am I missing?

too many men in backfield in that case. Has to be 7 on the line, only 4 in backfield.

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Posted by AshLSU

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Posted on 11/25/18 at 8:07 pm to lsufanz

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According to his explanations, even if a penalty had been called on the alignment for the spike play with "1 second left" there would not have been a time runoff. I don't understand this. If that's truly the case, why not just send the fastest player to the line to spike it regardless of where everyone else is? Based on his explanation, you'd still get to run the next play after what would in essence be another clock stopage and a 5 yd penalty. What am I missing?

Doesn’t any offensive penalty automatically run off 10 seconds?

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