Keep making these suggestions and you guys will be using NCAA rules.
"From your lips to God's ears" ... Nah, not exactly... I recognize that, in the interest of simplicity or appropriateness, there are several things NCAA does that don't need to enter the college game.
Complicated things that Fed is probably better off rejecting:
Iron cross substitutions (but if A is trying quick subs to gain an advantage, Fed should prohibit that on a you-know-it-when-you-see-it basis)
10-second runoffs
Turnovers on tries
Defensive holding may or may not carry an auto 1st
Complicated things that wouldn't be *too* complicated, but they don't add much and it's no big deal if Fed doesn't have them:
Returning kicks out of the end zone
Special DPI enforcement
Fourth down fumble rule
Forward fumble OOB rule
Free kick "fair catch = touchback" rule
Let the holder toss the ball from his knees
But with a year of NFHS under my belt, I continue to claim "Fed Hates Offense." High school athletes and offenses are not as high-powered as those in college. Every penalty yard on a high school drive is harder to overcome than a penalty yard on a college drive. Thus, if anything, penalties for holding should be less severe than NCAA, not more severe. As currently written, a single OH flag is much more of a drive-killer and game-outcome-affecting call than it is in college. Here are NCAA rules that fed should adopt:
Penalty enforcement behind the NZ. Possible language: "The enforcement spot for fouls committed against an opposing player in the field of play cannot be behind the previous spot, except after a change of possession" - this one line excludes IG, IFP, batting, and any foul in A's end zone, while covering OH, BBW, and fouls by B.
Live-ball defensive offside*
Free intentional grounding (a safety rule. It could be simpler than NCAA's e.g. it doesn't have to matter who throws the pass)
DPI auto 1st
Stepping OOB should render a receiver ineligible, not be as grave an offense as chop-blocking someone, I mean, this one is obvious
* Something has *got* to be done about defensive encroachment on extra-point attempts. I have seen more field goal rushers jump into the NZ this year than in *five years* of NCAA rules. It's being coached - "try to time the snap, kid, but if you jump the gun, NBD." The penalty isn't severe enough - you ice the kicker without expending a timeout, and half the time he declines the 1-1/2 yard penalty anyway. Maybe put that penalty on the kickoff instead? But that would entail a whole new rules exception. If defensive offside were a live-ball foul in general, that would largely solve this problem. It would sharply reduce the incentive to jump, because you would lose all ability to ice the kicker.
Finally, I understand there's an unbreakable Fed voting bloc that says "if you give auto 1st downs for B's PFs, then we want loss of down for A's PFs." I disagree with that, but if that's the way things are gonna be, then I greatly prefer the status quo to the alternative. I don't want loss of down for fouls against an opponent, no matter what.