quote author=Diablo link=topic=8658.msg82889#msg82889 date=1320168718]
If you accept the fact that Wade's contact with the receiver constituted an impediment to the receiver's ability to catch the punt, there are 2 separate rules which PROHIBIT tack-on of penalty enforcement to the end the Team B's runback. Those rules are 6-3-13 and 10-2-4.
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Both 6-3-13 and 10-2-4 only prohibit tacking on KCI but specifically allow enforcing all other fouls by the kicking team (PFs are a subset of all other fouls by the kicking team).
Even though I believe a personal foul should either be called instead of KCI or in addition to KCI, if the foul is somehow flagrant only because it was contact on a player in position to catch a scrimmage kick, then I can support the interpretation that KCI is the correct call.
However, if the kicking team player leads with the helmet pior to or after the receiver catches the ball (not saying that was the case in the Arkansas game), I have a PF unless the situation dictates a greater punishment for KCI. I am not going to punish the return team because the hit was early (even if an AR allows me to only enforce the KCI).
Is there an icon that shows my comments are all over the place and dont flow well? :
