few years back, my varsity crew had an extensive slate of 8-player games, and I recall at least one coach informing us in the pregame meeting about his "snapper eligible" play. With the A-11 offense and all players wearing eligible numbers, it would seem likely that a "snapper eligible" play would be in the Piedmont repertoire. But interestingly enough, Coach Bryan didn’t use that type of play in 2007.

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Officiating.com: Are you seeing more roughing the snapper penalties since the snapper now has protection in the scrimmage kick formation? Further, do defenses then tend not to have anyone head up on the snapper?

Bryan: In our 11 games, we did not get one roughing the snapper penalty called on the defense. The opposing coaches knew the rules, and once or twice their players got a warning. But that was it, no problem. Sometimes, teams would have a nose guard flexed off our snapper.

Officiating.com: Do any of your line blocking schemes (while in a scrimmage kick formation) involve cut blocking or blocking below the waist? The ball quickly leaves the free blocking zone, so I would think that a block below the waist would be pretty much out of the question. Is that so?

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