View Single Post
  #41 (permalink)  
Old Tue Jul 26, 2022, 12:04pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
Esteemed Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 23,378
Unprofessional ...

Quote:
Originally Posted by ilyazhito View Post
Every year, IAABO would send its members a mechanics manual combined with the rulebook ... I don't know if this year's IAABO manual will include the NFHS rules ...
I'm not sure why ilyazhito resurrected a twenty-one year old thread, but I'll play along.

According to our local board secretary/treasurer, no rulebook and no casebook will be included with the IAABO International mechanics manual this coming (2022-23) year (for the past forty-plus years we have always received a combined IAABO mechanics manual, NFHS rulebook, and NFHS casebook, comes with our annual IAABO International dues).

IAABO International is doing this as a cost saving measure.

I am very disappointed in IAABO, finding this decision to be incompatible with the IAABO goal of "education".

Here in Connecticut (100% IAABO state), basketball officials (not other sports) do not belong to the NFHS, thus we do not "automatically" get current rulebooks and current casebooks from the NFHS.

Starting this coming season, my local board will only provide current NFHS rulebooks and current NFHS casebooks to new (rookie) members, and to trainers (interpreters).

The rest to us will have the option to purchase current rulebooks and current casebooks directly from the NFHS, if we so desire (it's not mandatory).

That means that many high school basketball officials in my local board (not sure about the other five Connecticut local basketball boards) may not be carrying a current rulebook or a current casebook in their equipment bag.

I find that to be both incomprehensible and unprofessional.
__________________
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)

“I was in prison and you came to visit me.” (Matthew 25:36)

Last edited by BillyMac; Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 10:59am.
Reply With Quote