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Originally posted by chayce
I wanted to first comment on the advantage/disadvantage discussion and mention that at two of the camps I went to over the summer found a little different terminology. In NCAA Women's, the ad/dis is being replaced by impact/nonimpact. At first it seemed a bit nitpicky to me and that both sets of terminology are the same. After an explanation by Barb Jacobs (Big East and NCAA Rules Committee), I could finally see the difference. She said, "A player could gain an advantage over her opponent away from the ball and still there could be no impact on the play." True...anyway, give it some thought and see what you think.
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I think that absolutely nothing has changed in the philosophy in the last 45 years. All that has been changed is the terminology. Every few years, some pointy-headed clinician decides that his/her ticket to the Basketball Hall of Fame is to come up with some new amazing officiating concept. To do that, they take sumthin' like the good ol' advantage/disadvantage theory and try to describe it in completely different words( even though it is the same old theory). The latest one happens to be impact/non-impact, I guess. Personally, I think that the biggest problem with these philosophies is that people are trying to drill them into the heads of newer officials who are still trying to learn "what" to call, let alone "why" anything should or should not be called. Gotta learn to walk before you can run, imo.