NZGOA Forum

The NCAA Football Rules Committee endorsed a proposal that penalizes unsportsmanlike conduct as a live-ball foul beginning in the 2011 season. Press Release.

This would mean that, for example, if a player taunted the opposition while running in for a touchdown the score would be voided and the penalty enforced from the spot of the foul.

The committee threatened it in their odd Statement on Sportsmanship section in the rule book last time but it looks like it may turn into a rule (the next time they put out a rule book).

I think that it is a good idea. For the most part, the USC's we see would remain as dead ball fouls.

It is only occasionally that a USC is live and play affecting. One that springs to mind for me is diving unimpeded into the endzone. Would we dissallow that and spot the ball at the 1 yard line?