[rockyroad]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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JR:

Your response is not only misleading but it sounds like it was written by an immature high school sophomore.

IAABO believes in one rule-one interpretation and that is the rule or interpretation of the rules being used for a given competition whether it is NFHS, NCAA, NBA/WNBA, or FIBA. IABBO is a professional organization for all basketball officials and any registered basketball official in the world can be a member of IAABO. One does not have to reside in a state or province that requires its officials to be members of IAABO to be a member of IAABO. It should be noted that one of the current members of the NFHS Rules Committee is an IAABO State Rules Interpreter and over the last ten years there have been two other members of the NFHS Rules Committee that are IABBO members, most recently, Howard Mayo and Peter Webb. And if there is any one person in the United States or Canada that knows the NFHS Rules anybody else it is Peter Webb, is also the State Rules Interpreter for the Maine Principals Association (the StateHSAA for Maine) as well as the IAABO State Interpreter for Maine. If you really want the correct NFHS interpretation then Peter is the person to go to not because he is an IAABO official because no one in the United States or Canada has the accumulated knowledge of the history of the NFHS rules that Peter has.

As a member of four national IAABO committees, I am appalled that an IAABO member official would give such an incorrect ruling. But I would also be appalled if a OhioHSAA, MichiganHSAA, FloridaHSAA, registered basketball official or any other NFHS StateHSAA registered basketball official, whether he is or is not a member of IABBO would have given the same incorrect ruling.

Your further comments about “cones of verticality” and your ignorant statements about IAABO members reveal the fact that you would rather make stupid comments rather that make a meaningful contribution to the discussion.

MTD, Sr. [/B]

I think this would qualify as "tons of verbiage"!!!