[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Which is my point exactly. That's why I titled my post "Grass Roots Effort" and even included an image to underscore my point.



I did.

One of us is one more than "none of us", which was the point of my recent post. We all have the ability to make rule changes, connected, or not (as I am not), as long as we have a rationale reason for such a change, can do a good job of explaining that rationale in writing, and are willing to work through the paperwork. Of course, it also has to be a change for the good, to improve the game.

Just complaining about NFHS rules (not directed at JRutledge, but lots of Forum members, including me) on the Forum, or on other forms of social media, probably won't help fix broken rules (I doubt that the NFHS rules committee keeps tabs on what we're discussing here on the Forum).

When we find broken rules, and we have a possible fix, we should work to fix them. As individual officials. Or through our local, or state organizations. Or through our state interscholastic sports governing bodies. Let's be part of the solution.

We're not "tilting at windmills". Sometimes (not necessarily all the time) the NFHS, through all the bureaucratic fog, listens.

And I'm just an official with absolutely no title within any level of my organization other than member.

We have the ability to "suggest" rule changes, not "make" them.

And any rule change that ties into one of your suggestions may have been suggested by somebody on the committee or other folks making suggestions.

What Jeff and I are questioning is your constant (and often 1-person) debates about unclear verbiage that no one in this forum has any control over.