[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I can wait. My local board "new rules meeting" won't be until late October. My refresher exam won't be due until mid November. My first scrimmage won't be until late November. My first game won't be until early December. But until then, for discussion purposes (since I won't be taking an exam, or officiating any games or scrimmages), I'm going with the rule as it was written and publicized, and don't need to speculate as to whether, or not, the rule is the same as the NCAA rule because, in its present form, it isn't. That may change in the fall, or a year from now, or after that, or never, but it isn't the same right now.

Well the NF Rulebooks are out in like late July or early August if they are publishing in the same timing as they have in the past. There will be literature out long before November likely giving incite on the issue. Now I am not saying they will clear up your personal concerns. I would suspect that the NF will sloppily resolve this and create more questions as they already have. But again we will have to see. And what I mean by saying that the rule is the same as the NCAA, I believe the intent of the application is the same. But we already know the NF hates to take on other level rules while at the same time trying to create the very same rule application. That is kind of why we are here in the first place because they clearly wanted to take the NCAA Team Control Rule, but for some reason did not want to use the already existing language. But clearly, they would come back and say how they wanted the rule to be applied (which was basically the same as the NCAA in every way except that stupid interpretation).

Peace