Simulated Substitutions

[JasonTX]

Normally when I think of simulated substitution gimmicks I think of team A in a normal offensive huddle and then they do some type of trickery with sending a couple players off and one stopping just short of the sideline.

I just saw an interesting high school play on video.  Team A is lined up in a huddle for a kickoff.  The referee makes the ball ready for play.  The coach on the sideline makes a hand motion as if calling a player off as if they had too many in the huddle.  That player then sprints toward the coach and then the kicker quickly kicks the ball and that player turns up field and recovers it.

[NVFOA_Ump]

Would need to see the video for confirmation, but based on past guidance (and lots of it) we should have a  flag for a substitution infraction.  Guidance has consistently told us that there may be no use of the substitution process in any form to gain an advantage.  This sounds like a coached and orchestrated play to make it look like a legitimate substitution in process where the kick is not imminent and use that to K's advantage.  Without the sideline (non-player) participation, this should be OK.

[ElvisLives]

Substitution infraction my hiney!  That's a 9-2-2-b Unfair act.  15 yards.

Robert