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Background Check Instructions
In order to become a youth football team parent, coach, board member, or work with the children and families of the Martin County Youth Football League, it is for the safety and security of our players and families that you pass a criminal background check.
Instructions
Head over to the FSYFL background check form, and you will be asked to make a payment of $20 with the submission of your background check request. This $20 will be reimbursed, so please keep a record of your payment to submit this for reimbursement.
The link to complete your background check is FSYFL Background Check. This will open in a new tab.
Reasons a Volunteer Could be Denied
Reasons for being declined the opportunity to volunteer are noted below as part of this policy. In some instances, factors of time may be taken into account when considering coaching or volunteer eligibility (i.e. length of time since the disposition of certain offenses).
The decision of this screening committee may be appealed, for the purpose of clarifying facts or explaining extenuating circumstances, to the screening committee.
All criminal history record information will be promptly destroyed at the end of the current YSFL season. All coaches/volunteers are required to notify the committee immediately following an arrest or conviction of any of the listed offenses. Any coach or volunteer, who while coaching or volunteering for YSFL is arrested for committing an offense as listed, will immediately forfeit his/her coaching and/or volunteer eligibility until disposition by the courts. A conviction of an offense as listed will result in termination of coaching eligibility as stated in the policy.
The following is a list of offenses prohibiting an applicant from participation as a Coach under YSFL - offenses including but not limited to the following:
- Arson
- Assault (violent, aggravated, and sexual felonies)
- Aggravated Kidnapping
- Aggravated Robbery
- Crimes against Children (including abandonment, abuse, endangerment,
pornography, possession or promotion of pornography, enticement, solicitation, sale or purchase of, injury to, or indecency)
- Criminally Negligent Homicide
- Deadly Conduct
- Delivery and/or intent to distribute of any controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Manufacture of or Delivery of a controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Indecent Exposure
- Injury to Elderly or Disabled
- Intoxication Manslaughter
- Kidnapping
- Manslaughter (voluntary or involuntary)
- Murder
- Prohibited Sexual Conduct
- Prostitution (including promotion of, aggravated promotion of)
- Public Lewdness
- Rape
- Sexual Abuse
After Background Check
Please provide a copy of your background check to the board with a recent picture for your coaching/team parent badge. Additionally, we ask that you submit a copy of your payment for reimbursement.
We will not reimburse background checks that do not pass. It is your responsibility to determine if you may be at risk of failing a background check prior to paying for a background check and failing. Please understand that we cannot reimburse background checks for every person, as we are a non-profit organization and we are limited in our funding options and cannot cover every single person who wants to verify a clean background. Thank you for your understanding.
Team Parent
Team parents (Team Mom or Team Dad) is an essential member of the team. They assist in keeping the players, and player families organized about game schedules, practice changes, coach communications, paperwork organization, delegating game snacks and drink duties to other parents, and keeping the board informed of their team's game performance and scores.
Background Check Instructions
In order to become a youth football team parent, coach, board member, or work with the children and families of the Martin County Youth Football League, it is for the safety and security of our players and families that you pass a criminal background check.
Instructions
Head over to the FSYFL background check form, and you will be asked to make a payment of $20 with the submission of your background check request. This $20 will be reimbursed, so please keep a record of your payment to submit this for reimbursement.
The link to complete your background check is FSYFL Background Check. This will open in a new tab.
Reasons a Volunteer Could be Denied
Reasons for being declined the opportunity to volunteer are noted below as part of this policy. In some instances, factors of time may be taken into account when considering coaching or volunteer eligibility (i.e. length of time since the disposition of certain offenses).
The decision of this screening committee may be appealed, for the purpose of clarifying facts or explaining extenuating circumstances, to the screening committee.
All criminal history record information will be promptly destroyed at the end of the current YSFL season. All coaches/volunteers are required to notify the committee immediately following an arrest or conviction of any of the listed offenses. Any coach or volunteer, who while coaching or volunteering for YSFL is arrested for committing an offense as listed, will immediately forfeit his/her coaching and/or volunteer eligibility until disposition by the courts. A conviction of an offense as listed will result in termination of coaching eligibility as stated in the policy.
The following is a list of offenses prohibiting an applicant from participation as a Coach under YSFL - offenses including but not limited to the following:
- Arson
- Assault (violent, aggravated, and sexual felonies)
- Aggravated Kidnapping
- Aggravated Robbery
- Crimes against Children (including abandonment, abuse, endangerment,
pornography, possession or promotion of pornography, enticement, solicitation, sale or purchase of, injury to, or indecency)
- Criminally Negligent Homicide
- Deadly Conduct
- Delivery and/or intent to distribute of any controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Manufacture of or Delivery of a controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Indecent Exposure
- Injury to Elderly or Disabled
- Intoxication Manslaughter
- Kidnapping
- Manslaughter (voluntary or involuntary)
- Murder
- Prohibited Sexual Conduct
- Prostitution (including promotion of, aggravated promotion of)
- Public Lewdness
- Rape
- Sexual Abuse
After Background Check
Please provide a copy of your background check to the board with a recent picture for your coaching/team parent badge. Additionally, we ask that you submit a copy of your payment for reimbursement.
We will not reimburse background checks that do not pass. It is your responsibility to determine if you may be at risk of failing a background check prior to paying for a background check and failing. Please understand that we cannot reimburse background checks for every person, as we are a non-profit organization and we are limited in our funding options and cannot cover every single person who wants to verify a clean background. Thank you for your understanding.
Coaching
YOUTH SPRING FOOTBALL LEAGUE UNUSUAL RULES
RULE 1 – COIN TOSS In the presence of each captain, the referee will choose the
coach for the coin toss. The choice of coach is at the discretion of the referee. The winner of the coin toss will have 3 choices only 1) be on offense 2) be on defense 3) choose which side of the field they will play from. The opposing team will choose one of the remaining choices. There are NO deferring rules. After the half, teams will switch ball roles and sides of the field regardless.
RULE 2 – GAME TIMING & TIMEOUTS The game will consist of two continuous 22 minute halves with a five-minute halftime. The clock will be continuously running, only stopping for the team and/or referee time-outs. Each team is allowed one 30 sec timeout per half of the game. The 1st half timeout can be carried over to the 2nd half. The referee will also call a 2-minute warning at the end of BOTH halves, these 2-minute warnings will have all the privileges of a time out for both teams. In the last two minutes of the game, the team with a lead of more than 18 points cannot call a time out. In the last 2 minutes of the second half, the clock reverts to ordinary timing stopping for timeouts, penalties, incomplete passes and out-of-bounds running plays. There will also be one referee timeout at each 10-minute mark for water breaks where the clock will stop, this referee timeout will be at the discretion of the referee crew based on field temperature.
RULE 3 – PLAY CLOCK The offense is afforded twenty-five (25) seconds in which to snap the ball following the referee’s ready for play.
RULE 4 – OFFENSIVE LINEMAN RULES The line of scrimmage extends from sideline to sideline for both Offense and defensive players. Therefore all minimum and maximum player rules apply from sideline to sideline. The offense must have a minimum of five offensive players (OL, WR, or TE) on the LOS for every play. Offensive linemen can be in a 2 or 3 point stance
RULE 5 – DEFENSIVE PLAYER RULES This rule is now played exactly like regular NFHS football rules. The NFHS rule regarding Defensive Lineman states “that defensive players within one yard of the football are considered lineman. The NFHS Rule on this issue is in place to define who can be legally blocked below the waist and or legally blocked in the back. There are no minimums or maximum rules for defensive linemen.
The NFHS rule regarding Linebackers states "that defensive players within one yard of the football are considered lineman, therefore defensive secondary players must be a minimum of TWO YARDS North/South to be in an standing position”. Blitzing rules are according to the NFHS rules.
RULE 6 – CENTER PROTECTION NO player in only the 6U and 8U divisions may line up on, go over the top of, run directly into, or “rough” the Snapper. This will constitute roughing the snapper and result in a 15-yard penalty. Clearly, the snapper will be “bumped” from time to time, or shaved as the defensive player shoots their gap, however, the premise of the rule is that the initial intent of the defensive player should be to control their lane without, an obvious intent simply to run into the snapper in an unsafe manner. Once the snapper begins to engage the block then “all bets are off” and the defensive player is entitled to engage. This is a thin line of judgment, and referees have been given latitude here to determine the intent of “roughing the snapper” in the same way as “roughing the kicker” is concerned. This is about protecting the players.
RULE 7 – BLOCKING BELOW WAIST This rule is now played exactly like regular NFHS football rules. Blocking below the waist is allowed inside the designated free blocking zone. The free-blocking zone is a rectangular area extending laterally 4 yards on either side of the spot of the snap and 3 yards behind each line of scrimmage. A player is in the free-blocking zone when any part of his body is in the zone at the snap.
Blocking BELOW THE WAIST is permitted in the free blocking zone when the following conditions are met:
a. All players involved in the blocking are on the line of
scrimmage and in the zone at the snap.
b. The contact is in the zone
c. And the ball is in the free blocking zone
d. Once the ball has left the free blocking zone, the zone no longer exists, and blocking below the waist is illegal.
Blocking IN THE BACK is permitted in the free-blocking zone when the following conditions are met:
a. By offensive linemen who are on the line of
scrimmage and in the zone at the snap.
b. Against defensive players who are in the zone at the
snap.
c. The contact is in the zone.
d. And the ball is in the free blocking zone
e. Once the ball has left the free blocking zone, the zone no longer exists, and blocking in the back is illegal
RULE 8 – COACHES ON THE FIELD 6U – 1 coach on the field for all season. 8U, 10U, and 12U – 1 coach for the first two weeks. 14U and 15U may NOT have a coach on the field at all.
RULE 9 – KICKING There is no kicking of any kind. No punts, no field goals, no kickoffs, no extra points.
RULE 10 – ELIGIBLE PLAYERS ANY player (any jersey number) on the offensive side of the ball is eligible for a pass as long as they are not covered. Therefore apart from the QB there are always 4 players on every snap that are eligible to catch a pass.
RULE 11 – MERCY RULES If a team gets a lead of 24 points or more, the losing team will start with the ball at midfield. If a team has a lead of more than 24 points as well as there being less than 5 minutes left in the game, that team may not throw the ball. A 15-yard penalty will be assessed for each infraction. In the last two minutes of the game, the team with a lead of more than 18 points cannot call a time out. In the event a team has a lead of 18 points or more and who is in offensive possession of the ball, with 60 seconds or less remaining on the clock, the game will be called final.
RULE 12 – ADDITIONAL UNIFORM RULES Tinted face shields ARE allowed. Armbands and decorative player apparel are allowed to be worn on any area of the player's body. Tape is allowed. No jewelry. No metal cleats.
RULE 13 – PLAYER CELEBRATION RULES End zone celebrations are allowed as long as the celebration is not directly taunting another player or team. Lifting hands, dancing, or somersaulting into the end zone is allowed. Pointing at another player, derogatory dancing, and/or taunting of any kind is not allowed.
RULE 14 – OVERTIME There is no overtime in the regular season. In Playoff games, the overtime will be by Kansas Tie Breaker Rules.
RULE 15 – GAME SCORING Touchdown 6 points. Extra points are 1 point for a RUN from the 5 yd line, and 2 Points for a PASS from the 5 yd line. In order to be awarded 2 points for a pass, the pass must be a forward pass. The ball does not have to pass the line of scrimmage. Backward passes that result in a score on an extra point will be awarded 1 point. Safety 2 points.
RULE 16 – PUNTING & 4TH DOWN DECLARATION There are NO punts. For all 4th downplays, coaches may choose to a) run the 4th downplay or b) "declare" an intention to punt to the referee. In the case of a declared punt, the ball will be placed 25 yards further down the field from the 4th down LOS. Declared punts from 25 yards or less of the opposing team will be “half the distance”. The play clock begins when the referee has placed the ball.
Download a copy of these rules by
clicking here. Please note, the link will open in a new tab so you will not lose your progress.
Background Check Instructions
In order to become a youth football team parent, coach, board member, or work with the children and families of the Martin County Youth Football League, it is for the safety and security of our players and families that you pass a criminal background check.
Instructions
Head over to the FSYFL background check form, and you will be asked to make a payment of $20 with the submission of your background check request. This $20 will be reimbursed, so please keep a record of your payment to submit this for reimbursement.
The link to complete your background check is FSYFL Background Check. This will open in a new tab.
Reasons a Volunteer Could be Denied
Reasons for being declined the opportunity to volunteer are noted below as part of this policy. In some instances, factors of time may be taken into account when considering coaching or volunteer eligibility (i.e. length of time since the disposition of certain offenses).
The decision of this screening committee may be appealed, for the purpose of clarifying facts or explaining extenuating circumstances, to the screening committee.
All criminal history record information will be promptly destroyed at the end of the current YSFL season. All coaches/volunteers are required to notify the committee immediately following an arrest or conviction of any of the listed offenses. Any coach or volunteer, who while coaching or volunteering for YSFL is arrested for committing an offense as listed, will immediately forfeit his/her coaching and/or volunteer eligibility until disposition by the courts. A conviction of an offense as listed will result in termination of coaching eligibility as stated in the policy.
The following is a list of offenses prohibiting an applicant from participation as a Coach under YSFL - offenses including but not limited to the following:
- Arson
- Assault (violent, aggravated, and sexual felonies)
- Aggravated Kidnapping
- Aggravated Robbery
- Crimes against Children (including abandonment, abuse, endangerment,
pornography, possession or promotion of pornography, enticement, solicitation, sale or purchase of, injury to, or indecency)
- Criminally Negligent Homicide
- Deadly Conduct
- Delivery and/or intent to distribute of any controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Manufacture of or Delivery of a controlled substance or dangerous drug
- Indecent Exposure
- Injury to Elderly or Disabled
- Intoxication Manslaughter
- Kidnapping
- Manslaughter (voluntary or involuntary)
- Murder
- Prohibited Sexual Conduct
- Prostitution (including promotion of, aggravated promotion of)
- Public Lewdness
- Rape
- Sexual Abuse
After Background Check
Please provide a copy of your background check to the board with a recent picture for your coaching/team parent badge. Additionally, we ask that you submit a copy of your payment for reimbursement.
We will not reimburse background checks that do not pass. It is your responsibility to determine if you may be at risk of failing a background check prior to paying for a background check and failing. Please understand that we cannot reimburse background checks for every person, as we are a non-profit organization and we are limited in our funding options and cannot cover every single person who wants to verify a clean background. Thank you for your understanding.
