OSUsushichic
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OK, I have a dumb question. How can the kicking team recover an onside kick if it doesn't hit an opposing player first?
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OSUsushichic
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Best Buckeye;1266938; said:
But why? If the ball is kicked, say, 50 yards, the kicking team can't just pick it up and run with it unless it hits a player. Right? So why can they on an "onside" kick?
(Sorry, I meant to post this in the AU-LSU thread.)
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OSUsushichic;1266935; said:
Yeah, like BestBuckeye said, once a kickoff travels ten yards, it's a live ball. Even if no one touches it, the other team can always recover a kickoff once it goes ten yards.
Little redundant, but I think it works.
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OCBucksFan
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OSUsushichic;1266935; said:
The main rule is that the ball has to travel 10 yards downfield before it can be recovered by the kicking team prior to the opponents touching it.
Onside basically means on your side of the field, once it passes the 50, it's no longer an onside kick.
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OSUsushichic;1266940; said:
Yeah, they can. Punts are different. On a kickoff, it's a "live ball" once it passes the ten. The kicking team can recover it regardless of the recieving team touching it.
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OSUsushichic;1266940; said:
I think you are thinking of a punt. In a punting situation you are correct it must hit an opposing player. But a kick-off as long as it goes 10 yards or the opposing team doesn't call for a fair catch then it (the ball) is fair game.
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OSUsushichic
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OK, thanks, guys. I feel really stupid for not knowing that!
Back to your regularly scheduled ASU comeback win. :p
Back to your regularly scheduled ASU comeback win. :p
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OSUsushichic;1266954; said:
Also, if the kicking team recovers it, they can't advance it. Blackledge said LSU advanced the ball about ten yards - the refs moved it back to where they recovered it, and he never corrected himself or explained why the ball was back just outside the 40, when Jai Eugene ran it past midfield.
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OregonBuckeye
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The exaggeration of Georgia's schedule has reached a pinnacle tonight. I thought they had the Pittsburgh Steelers' schedule.
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BigWoof31
"Barkin' up the wrong tree"
OregonBuckeye;1267088; said:
Pretty sure I'd rather have a home and home with the Bengals than play LSU and Florida.
And there is no exaggeration. We play the past two defending National Champs and a resurgent Alabama team....and we do it in a 5 week stretch
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I can't think of a worse exaggeration than that. I truly hope that was sarcasm, as you've been an excellent poster thus far.
]Here I thought the 06 team graduated it's entire defense, and was left with an absolute trainwreck, which couldn't stop Michigan to save it's life.
Wake me up when they take out someone good. Can Saban rebuild them? Obviously, but smoking a perennial underachiever from the worst BCS conference, and a lousy Arkansas team doesn't do much for me.
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