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Screening is a pet peeve of mine. Last year I polled some of the oldest and most respected refs I know and practically none of them had called a single screening in the last 25-30 years. Or ever. Warned - yes, called - no.
And yes - when I widened the poll a bit, there was one person, I think, who said that he calls 1-2 a year. That’s it. No real statistical value besides being the exception, that proves the rule.
So, we have not been calling them for decades. I’ve never called it. Last time I’ve seen it being called - I was on the court as a player…loooong time ago.
Yet, in every other clinic it was talked about. And still - no one was calling it.
So, I don’t even understand how today’s kids and coaches can even complain, since they have not ever seen it called.
My general take on any rule that is never enforced or is impossible to enforce, is that it should stop being a rule.
I was cautiously happy when last season we started asking men’s teams to drop their arms. I’m sure it came as a trickle down from FIVB and I officially saw it only in the MPSF/BigWest memo, but in reality, around here, it was applied across the board all the way down to JC. So USAV is catching up I guess.
And I did see a screening being called in VNL this year!
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