Per FanBlogs, if I’m reading this correctly, the NCAA has finally changed one of their stupidest rules that Clemson stupidly broke repeatedly.

Offensive Scrimmage Formation (Rules 1-1-1-b-2 and 7-1-3-b) The requirement for having at least seven offensive players on the line of scrimmage has been re-stated to allow no more than four players in the backfield. This is not a rule change but merely a different way of writing the same requirement. It does eliminate the foul for a team having ten players when there are only six on the line of scrimmage. Otherwise, the requirements for scrimmage formations remain the same.

I know that penalty cost us the ’05 game at Georgia Tech as well as the ’06 game against Maryland. Did it cost us the ’08 Maryland game as well? [Edit: I guess not, it was some other stupid penalty.]

Posted on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 9:01 pm by Broken Gnome

Filed under Clemson, Football, Georgia Tech, Maryland.

Both comments and pings are currently closed.