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Originally posted by DrakeM
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I still will agree with Crew and Eli.
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Imagine that.
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The shot has been blocked. To what disadvantage has the offensive man been placed? His shot has been cleanly blocked!
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So, if he swipes at the ball and misses it, you're going to call a foul if there's contact on the body. But if he does block the shot, you're going to let the contact go? That's the premise that you just proposed.
All that may be fine and dandy in the pro game. But not calling hand checking, a hand in the back on drives, or a foul on a blocked shot has no place in the high school game. Have you ever read the NF's Points of Emphasis? Officials such as yourself, crew, and eli causes the NF to have to address those types of issues every year in it's POE. Yet, such officials just continue on thier merry little way, destined to call what they won't to call.
In the state of NC, we're calling hand-checking strictly by the book and by the POE. Guess what? The players are adjusting and we're eliminating this problem from the game. You have no way of knowing whether a handcheck or a hand in the back is affecting the shooter or not. It's simply judgement. And when you don't know, you can't guess that it's not.
The play last night proves that such philosophies are just the work of a minority of individuals. That minority makes it very difficult for the majority who are calling the game by the rules, as it makes all of us look silly.