Why is illegal touching such a bad penalty to deserve loss of down and yards?

Sep 18, 2023
6:21:36am

WP17 King of the Kenai

How is it worse than holding or delay of game? No one gets hurt and it’s due entirely to negligence and not malice. What’s the reason for such severe punishment?

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Why is illegal touching such a bad penalty to deserve loss of down and yards?

WP17 King of the Kenai

9/18/23 6:21am

My guess would be the same logic behind intentional grounding

OGSuperfan

9/18/23 6:24am

Intentional grounding I get- you knew you were doing it and so you don’t get a do over.

WP17

9/18/23 6:25am

Often times it's called in the same situation.

cougarfann888

9/18/23 6:43am

Intentional Grounding is actually a penalty with no impact.

mkscougar

9/18/23 9:30am

But you're preventing the offense from being able to cheaply avoid the sack

Tricky

9/18/23 11:06am

Only if he is more than 10 yards behind LOS

cougarfann888

9/18/23 11:15am

BM Bill Cosby

CougarTwins

9/18/23 6:24am

RE: BM Bill Cosby

Methusaleh22

9/18/23 6:26am

RE: BM Bill Cosby

Marc Spector

9/18/23 6:40am

RE: BM Bill Cosby

TheHop

9/18/23 6:46am

RE: BM Bill Cosby

CharlottesvilleCoug

9/18/23 10:33am

One reason I can think of — is so coaches don't try to sneak one past the refs.

SinkingQuffa

9/18/23 6:26am

I don't know

TheHop

9/18/23 6:27am

Because you can have tackle eligible plays. The entire point of the rule is

Corn Pop

9/18/23 6:41am

Does a tackle have to report as eligible in CFB?

CameronG

9/18/23 9:07am

Yes… but the above post is why… a defense can read an alignment and determine

1984coug

9/18/23 10:42am

The guy shouldn’t be there; if he weren’t there, the ball would hit the ground

Coop

9/18/23 6:45am

That makes total sense

SouthernBlueBlood

9/18/23 6:53am

But that's somewhat true of many penalties.

cougarfann888

9/18/23 6:55am

And the defense would be deceived in covering a man who is ineligible opening up

Blue Ridge

9/18/23 7:17am

Because it's the added penalty of not only having

IdahoCoug

9/18/23 7:07am

Honestly, it's pretty rare for

tmurphey44

9/18/23 7:43am

Arkansas one was actually an OL who caught it; also, KJ was probably down...

moknowssports

9/18/23 8:25am

So Rex needs to stop catching them and it's just 5 yards?

Utesaretheworst

9/18/23 7:56am

No, the receivers/backs need to learn not to cover up the TE. It's inexcusable for them to not understand their

IdahoCoug

9/18/23 8:29am

^^^^^This

moknowssports

9/18/23 8:38am

And Aiden Robbins last week.

IdahoCoug

9/18/23 8:40am

Well yew, but my point is that we are getting extra penalized for catching it.

Utesaretheworst

9/18/23 11:57am

Yeah, but Isaac Rex has no idea at the time the ball is thrown to him that he's an ineligible receiver.

IdahoCoug

9/18/23 12:05pm

Because the defense reads who's on the line and who can be in pass patterns.

nephicoug

9/18/23 8:35am

Count me as one who thinks it needs a new name

JupiterJones

9/18/23 8:06am

Agree. Illegal formation maybe.... inelligible man down field....

CT98

9/18/23 1:43pm

I don't know if I agree, but the theory must be the same as grounding

byujdmba

9/18/23 8:51am

Illegal Touching by an Ineligible Receiver results in loss of down

Chody75

9/18/23 9:19am

Ha! You sit in the row/seats right behind me!

Buster Scruggs

9/18/23 11:08am

It’s a loss of ecclesiastical endorsement at BYU.

DiamondDog

9/18/23 9:34am

And jail time. Unless you're Joe Biden.

IdahoCoug

9/18/23 9:40am

Essentially its an intent to deceive in theory

stansburycoug

9/18/23 10:04am

I think some rules in football need to be changed

CoolB

9/18/23 11:23am

Because this is America, not Canada.

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