UT Intramural Flag Football Officials Training

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UT Intramural Flag Football Officials
Training

• Classroom Clinic

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Introductions

• Darci Doll
• Assistant Intramural/Sport Club Coordinator
• darci_at_mail.utexas.edu
• Randall Ford
• Associate Director - Programs
• Joon Kim and Andy Perez
• Sport Coordinators
• Program Assistants (Blue Shirts)
• Supervisors (Silver shirts)

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IM Flag FB Officials Classroom Clinic Agenda

• IM Officiating Philosophies
• UT Paperwork
• Getting paid
• Uniform
• Scheduling and Meetings
• Sportsmanship, Protests, Injuries
• Inclement Weather
• 2008 IM Flag FB Rules
• Mens and Womens
• Coed
• IM Flag Football 3-Person Officiating Basic
  Coverage

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IM Flag FB Officiating Philosophies
Everyone can be a Flag Football Official!!!

• Prepare Mentally and Physically
• Learn the Rules and Mechanics
• Hustle, Hustle, Hustle!!
• Be the BEST you can be
• Be on time and in proper uniform
• Be professional
• FOCUS, one play at a time
• Work every play as a team, using your keys
• AND MOST IMPORTANTLY . . .

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IM Flag FB Officiating Philosophies
Everyone can be a Flag Football Official!!!

• HAVE FUN
• Enjoy the games! You are getting paid to make
  friends, watch sports, and exercise

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UT Paperwork
GETTING PAID

• Currently working for RecSports, or worked last
  year for RecSports
• GRE 2.206 - only if information has changed
• Currently working for UT, or worked last year for
  UT
• GRE 2.206 - add information into our computer
  database
• Have never worked for UT
• GRE 2.206 your information in computer database
• PO-8 tax form
• I-9 Employment verification - Need picture ID AND
  Social Security card or Passport or Birth
  Certificate
• Ethics Statement
• Selective Service (males only)
• MUST be completed before start working

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UT Paperwork
GETTING PAID

• Wages
• Start 8.00/game
• After 10 games - 9.00/game
• After 20 games - 10.00/game
• Veterans start at 2nd level and cap at
  10.00/game
• Paid every 2 weeks
• Pay dates are 10/5, 10/22, 11/7, 11/21, 12/7

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IM Flag Football Training Schedule

• Classroom Clinic (1.5 hours)
• On-Field Training (3 hours)
• Practice Games (3 games)
• FREE Uniform

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UT Officials Uniform

• IM Officials Shirt
• GRE Gym Store 5.00
• Fox 40 Whistle
• GRE Gym Store 3.50
• Black or dark athletic shorts
• Proper footwear - NO sandals, boots, or bare feet
• UT Style Hats ONLY
• Penalty Flag will be provided

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Scheduling

• Pick your own schedule every 2 weeks
• Schedule releases
• Week 1, Weeks 2 and 3, Weeks 4 and 5
• Hours assigned based on Rating (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Ratings
• Based on experience and performance
• Move up the list each week!
• Substitutes
• Find your own from your group /- 1
• MUST send e-mail with confirmation

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Scheduling

• Flag Football Game Times
• Sundays 3-10p
• Mondays - Thursdays 6-10p
• All games are scheduled on the hour
• MUST check-in 15 minutes prior to shift
• Find PA on duty (Blue shirt)
• Sign-in and get field assignments
• MUST sign-out to get paid for games worked
• All games are played at the IM Fields (Whitaker
  Fields)
• 51st and Guadalupe

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Meetings

• Weekly Training Meetings
• Weeks 1-6
• Every week tba in GRE
• Not required - Strongly Encouraged
• Topics will include rules, mechanics, crazy
  plays, guest speakers and sometimes food!
• Officials in attendance can move up in Rating!

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Sportsmanship, Protests, Injuries

• Sportsmanship
• Grade teams EVERY game (A, B, C, D, or F)
• Protests
• Hear the word - STOP the game and find a Sup
  (silver shirt) or PA (blue shirt)
• DO NOT tell a team they cant Protest a call
• Injuries
• DO NOT touch the player
• When the ball becomes dead - stop the game and
  find a Sup
• Time may be added to the game depending on the
  severity of the injury

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Inclement Weather

• Rainline - 452-2235
• After 4p Mon-Thu and After noon Sundays
• Or
• www.utrecsports.org/intramurals
• DO NOT assume games are cancelled

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NIRSA Flag Football Rules

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Pre-Game Meeting

• With Co-officials
• Introduce yourselves
• Choose positions (R, LJ, BJ)
• Go over areas of responsibility
• With Captains of both teams - Coin Toss
• To defer his/her options to second half
• To start on offense or defense
• To defend a specific goal

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Field Markings Dimensions
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Equipment Game Ball

• Teams MUST provide their own ball.
• The offense is responsible for the ball.
• Mens teams must use a regular size ball.
• Womens and Corec teams may use
• Regular
• Intermediate
• Youth or
• Junior size ball

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Equipment Required

• A player must wear
• Pants or shorts - WITHOUT Pockets
• A jersey
• Shoes
• A flag belt

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Equipment Illegal

• Billed hats
• Bandanas with knots
• Pads or braces worn above the waist
• Shoes with metal or ceramic cleats
• Screw-in cleats when the screw is not part of the
  cleat
• Shirts or jerseys which do not stay tucked in
  unless they are more than 4 from the waist

• Any hood which does not remain tucked in
• Pants or shorts with belts or belt loops, pockets
  or exposed drawstrings
• Exposed metal on clothes or person
• Towels attached at a players waist.

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Beginning the Game

• Team Composition
• Maximum
• Mens Womens 7
• Coed 8
• 4 men 4 women
• Minimum
• Mens Womens 5
• Coed 6
• 3 men 3 women
• 4 women 2 men
• 4 men 2 women
• Players may substitute at any time between downs
  provided they are ready to play

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Timing - No Show Procedure

• Any team not ready to play at game time shall be
  penalized in the following manner
• Game Time - ball and choice of goal to defend to
  opposing team
• 3 min. - ball moved to own 39-yard line - 1st to
  the 40
• 6 min. - ball moved to 20 and credit for
  penetration
• 9 min. - penalized one TD and 3-point conversion
  (9 pts)
• If game begins after 9 minutes, the team arriving
  late shall be given ball at their own 14-yard
  line, as if they had been scored upon
• 10 min. - Game is declared a NO SHOW, 9-0 final
  score

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Timing

• The game consists of one 20-minute half, a
  5-minute half-time, and a 15-minute second half
  followed by a game ending 10-play series.
• The clock runs continuously during both halves.
• All timing is kept simultaneous on all fields by
  bell tones. EXCEPTION If an injury occurs on a
  field, time will be kept by the referee or IM
  staff on-site.
• Each team receives one 30-second timeout per half
  and one 30-second timeout during the 10-play
  series.
• Timeouts DO NOT carryover from half to half or to
  the 10-play series
• No timeouts shall be called in the final 5
  minutes of the 1st half

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Timing - 10 Play Series

• A tone will signify the end of the 15-minute
  second half and the beginning of the 10-play
  series
• Game will continue without any interruption.
  Team in possession of the ball shall retain
  possession.
• Extra points and plays in which a non-loss of
  down penalty occur DO NOT count towards these 10
  plays.
• Punts DO count toward the 10 plays.
• Exception - A game cannot end with a punt on the
  10th play. If a team does punt on the 10th play,
  the opposing team will be allowed one play from
  scrimmage.
• If the referee misses the 15-minute tone, the 10
  plays will begin as soon as the error is
  discovered. However, if 10 minutes elapse and
  the error is not discovered, the game shall be
  considered over even though the 10 plays were not
  played.

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Zone Line-to-Gain and New Series

• The offensive team has 4 consecutive downs to
  advance the ball across the next zone
  line-to-gain.
• A new series is awarded
• to the offense if the line-to-gain is reached or
  a penalty which carries an automatic first down
  is accepted,
• to the defense if the offense fails to reach the
  line-to-gain after four consecutive downs, or
• to either team if a change of possession or a
  kick occurs during the down.

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Scoring Touchdown

• A team scores a touchdown when one of their
  players is in possession of the ball in their
  opponents end zone.
• In Coed games, if a female player crosses the
  goal line with possession of the ball or throws a
  legal forward pass and a touchdown is scored by
  any Team A player, prior to a change of
  possession, it is worth 9 points.
• All other touchdowns are worth 6 points.

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Scoring Tries

• After a touchdown, the scoring team may elect to
  try for
• 1 point from the 3-yard line
• 2 points from the 10-yard line or
• 3 points from the 20-yard line.
• If the defense gains possession during the try
  and scores what would normally be a touchdown,
  they are awarded 3 points.
• Following a try, the opponents of the team which
  scored the touchdown will get the ball at their
  14-yard line.

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Scoring Penetrations

• Only used to break ties in games if the scored is
  tied at the end of the 10-play series during
  regular season games.
• A penetration shall be scored when a ball is dead
  and legally in possession of a team on or beyond
  the opponents 20-yard line.
• A live ball penalty bringing the ball back
  outside the 20-yard line does not count as a
  penetration since the ball was not legally dead
  inside the 20-yard line.
• Only one penetration can be scored per
  possession.
• During playoffs, penetrations will not be counted
  to break ties. All tied games will play overtime.

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Scoring Safety

• A safety counts two points, and one point on the
  try.
• A safety occurs
• when a team is responsible for the ball being in
  their own end zone and it becomes dead there,
• when a penalty against the offense is accepted
  and the enforcement spot is from their own end
  zone.
• The team which scored a safety will get the ball
  at their own 14-yard line.

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Scoring Touchback

• When a team is responsible for the ball being in
  their opponents end zone, it is a touchback when
  the ball becomes dead there.
• No points are awarded for a touchback.
• The team which was awarded a touchback will get
  the ball at their 14-yard line.

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Scoring Mercy Rule

• If at the start of, or any time during, the
  10-play series . . .
• the point differential is 19 or more points in a
  mens or womens game, or
• the point differential is 25 or more points in a
  coed game,
• the game is immediately ended.

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Line of Scrimmage Requirements

• No player may be in the neutral zone before the
  snap.
• The offense must have 4 (Coed 5) players on the
  line of scrimmage at the snap.
• The snap receiver must be at least two yards
  behind the line of scrimmage.
• Only one offensive player may be in motion at the
  snap and it may not be forward.
• The snap must be one continuous motion.

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Running the Ball

• Any player may hand the ball in any direction at
  any time.
• The runner may not ward off defensive players
  with his/her hand or arm.
• The runner may not place the ball over the flag
  belt.
• The defensive team may not use his/her hands to
  push, pull or hold the runner.
• A defensive player may take a position in the
  runners path provided the defense does not
  initiate contact.

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Passing the Ball

• Any player may pass the ball backward at any
  time.
• The offensive team is permitted to throw one
  forward pass during a down provided
• the pass is thrown from behind the offensive
  teams scrimmage line, and
• it is thrown before a change of possession.

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Passing the Ball

• To make a legal catch, a player must have
  possession of the ball and land inbounds with at
  least one foot.
• Pass interference by
• the offense, results in a 10 yard penalty and a
  loss of down.
• the defense, results in a 10 yard penalty and an
  automatic first down.

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Downing the Runner

• The runner is down when an opponent removes
  his/her flag belt.
• If his/her belt is all ready off, the runner is
  down when an opponent delivers a one hand tag
  between the runners shoulders and knees.
• A runner is also down when any part of his/her
  body, other than hand or foot, touches the ground.

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Inadvertent Whistle

• Play is dead at the time the whistle is blown.
• If inadvertent whistle is blown during a pass or
  kick (loose ball, not in player possession) the
  play is automatically replayed from the previous
  spot.
• If inadvertent whistle blown while the ball is in
  player possession, the team in possession has
  option of taking result of play at the spot of
  where it was blown dead OR replay the down from
  the previous spot.

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Screen Blocking

• Either team may obstruct an opponent by getting
  into his/her path.
• If contact occurs, the player who initiated the
  contact shall be guilty of illegal contact
  provided his/her opponent took a position which
  was initially legal and legally moved to maintain
  it.

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Fumbles

• If a fumble or backward pass strikes the ground,
  it is dead and belongs to the fumbling/passing
  team at the spot it struck the ground.
• The offensive team may not bat a backward pass
  forward.

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Punting the Ball

• A punt is only legal when it has been declared.
• usually on 4th down.
• the offensive captain may request to punt on any
  down.
• Neither team may cross their scrimmage line until
  the ball is kicked.
• A punt which strikes the ground is live unless it
  has been touched by either team.
• The receiving team may run a punt out of the end
  zone.

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Coed Differences

• An offensive male runner may not run the ball
  through the offensive teams scrimmage line.
  This restriction ends
• after the ball has been beyond the offenses
  scrimmage line,
• during a female players run, or
• after a change of possession.

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Coed Differences

• If a play is open, any player may complete a
  legal forward pass to any other player.
• If a play is closed, a female player must
  either throw or catch a legal forward pass and
  the play must gain positive GROSS yards.
• There may not be two consecutive male-to-male
  completions.
• If a female passer completes a pass to a male
  player behind the line and he runs through the
  offenses scrimmage line, it is an illegal
  forward pass.

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Penalty Enforcement Terms

• Dead-ball Foul
• A foul which occurs between the end of the
  previous play and the start of the next play.
• Any unsportsmanlike or nonplayer foul which
  occurs at any time.
• Live-ball Foul
• A foul which occurs between the snap and the end
  of the play and is not an unsportsmanlike conduct
  or nonplayer foul.

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Penalty Enforcement

• Dead-ball Live-ball fouls cannot be combined to
  offset each other.
• Dead-ball Fouls
• Are enforced in the order of occurrence.
• Live-ball Fouls
• No team may accept more than one live-ball foul
  committed by an opponent.
• If each team commits one or more live-ball foul,
  the penalties offset.

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Penalty Enforcement

• All penalties are either 5 yards or 10 yards
• Fouls are enforced from one of 4 spots
• Line of scrimmage (previous spot)
• Spot of the foul
• End of the run
• Spot where the ball will next be snapped
  (succeeding spot)

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct

• If a player commits 2 unsportsmanlike conduct
  fouls, he/she shall be disqualified.
• If a team commits 3 unsportsmanlike conduct
  fouls, the game shall be forfeited to the
  opponents-Person Officiating Mechanics

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3-Person Officiating Mechanics
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IM Flag FB Officials Training Schedule

• Sunday, Sept. 7th - 6-9pm IM Fields
• and
• Monday, Sept. 8th
• 645pm-10pm
• or
• Tuesday, Sept. 9th
• 645-10pm

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IM Flag FB Officials Training

• THANK YOU!!!
• See you Sunday!!