2017-18 NFHS QUESTIONNAIRE
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Have you observed any of the following this year?
1. Schools utilizing large video boards with bright flashing lights to encourage excitement in the crowd during competition?
Never/rarely/frequently/almost always
2. Teams wearing like-colored bottoms with different color waistbands.
Never/rarely/frequently/almost always
3. Awkward or clumsy officials’ mechanics with the administration of the card(s) for unnecessary delay.
Never/rarely/frequently/almost always
4. Teams using electronic scorebooks as the official scorebook for the match.
Never/rarely/frequently/almost always
5. Competitors wearing skid protectors or other hand padding, creating a competitive advantage by reducing spin when used as point of contact during play.
Never/rarely/frequently/almost always
About the rules for 2018-19, would you favor…
1. Establishing specific size limitations for school name, mascot, and/or player’s name placed on the body of the solid-colored uniform top.
Yes/No
2. Restricting allowable uniform digits to be no higher than five to make it easier for officials to signal.
Yes/No
3. Eliminating the use of rosters
Yes/No
4. Modifying the penalty for late submission of a lineup to an unnecessary delay rather than loss of rally/point.
Yes/No
5. Modifying the National Anthem protocol to allow the second referee and one line judge to stand of the officials’ table side of the court to help facilitate pre-match procedures.
Yes/No
6. Requiring the second referee to transition to the side of the offending team on all calls by the first referee.
Yes/No
7. Restricting contact with the center line by any part of the body.
Yes/No
8. Allowing the encroachment into the opponent’s court with any part of the body if one part of the body is in contact or over the center line, provided there is no interference with opponents.
Yes/No
9. Modifying the rule for net play to permit contact with the net or antenna by a player unless the contact is made during the action of playing a ball or it interferes with play.
Yes/No
10. Allowing the libero/replacement to enter the court from the baseline.
Yes/No
11. Allowing multiple contacts on a team’s second contact in addition to first contact as long as the contact does not result in the ball crossing the plane of the net.
Yes/No
12. Eliminating the re-serve.
Yes/No
13. Increasing the allowable time to make contact on a serve from five to eight seconds.
Yes/No
14. Allowing head coaches to request a decision review only if they have time-outs available.
Yes/No
15. Removing the penalty (unnecessary delay for requesting a time-out in a set after a team has taken its allotted time-outs unless it is recognized by the second referee with a whistle.
Yes/No
16. Broadening the penalty requiring head coaches to remain seated for the remainder of the match to include an unsporting conduct issued to any player on the court.
Yes/No
17. Adding a penalty to a team/coach for unsporting conduct by a spectator.
Yes/No
18. Allowing nonplaying team members to stand at the end of the bench during play.
Yes/No