[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

The NFHS and the NCAA issues POE's yearly. Some items stay a POE for years, some items are there for a year and gone the next. The NFHS 2000-01 POE regarding intentional fouls included a list of actions that are to be considered intentional fouls. The 2004-05 NFHS Rules Book does not list intentional fouls as a POE, but that does not invalidate the list of actions that the NFHS posted in its 2000-01 POE.

I am a firm believer that if Coach B yells for his players to foul and B1 commits, what would normally be a common foul, a foul against A1, that foul is an intentional foul. Have I lived by that rule? Yes. It happened during a boys' H.S. varsity game late in the 2000-01 season. Late in the fourth quarter, Team A has a throw-in in front of Team B's bench after a timeout. A1 inbounds the ball to A2. Coach B tells B2 to foul A2. B2 hacks A2 across the wrist as he attempted to start his dribble. Tweet! Intentional foul on B2. Coach B couldn't believe it and I told him to read this year's POE's. Believe it or not, no technical foul on Coach B.

MTD, Sr.