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Originally Posted by JRutledge
The Simplified and Illustrated Rulebooks are as official as it gets. I buy these books in football and basketball every year. This year's football book is Referee/NASO all over it. I also have book "Rules by Topic" for football and they will create for basketball and baseball this year as well. These are also NF books published by Referee.
JR is right that in the past Referee was giving rulings and information that my or may not have been official. Those days are over. Actually those days have been over for a few years now because this relationship did not just start this year. You have to separate a case play that is made up where all the levels interpretations are given as compared to a word on mechanics when Referee is creating the books for the CCA and the NF with some content.
Peace
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Nope, those days aren't over. NASO/Referee is still not approved to issue rulings or case plays. Only the NFHS rulesmakers and their designated state bodies are. Yes, the Simplified and Illustrated book published for the FED by NASO is NFHS-approved, as is the basketball book "Rules By Topic" that NASO is selling. Those books have the FED logo on them. However, Referee/NASO does not sell the NFHS rule book, case book or officials' manual, nor do they have any input into the content of these books either
afaik. Those are the 3 main books usually used by all officials.NASO does sell some of their own mechanic books instead,
sans the NFHS logo. Those books are
not NFHS approved. I don't have a clue whether their content mirrors the FED manual, but if you buy and use any NASO/Referee books that don't have the NFHS logo on them, you are doing so at your own risk.
Case plays printed in Referee magazine are still
not approved rulings
unless those case plays came from the NFHS rulesmakers or their designated state representatives,
not from NASO/Referee writers. Sez so right on the bottom of every second page of every NFHS rule and case book, including this year's.
Please note that I am in no way dissing NASO or Referee magazine. I might also make fun of IAABO, but I have a high regard for that organization too. To be quite honest, the rules might be a lot easier to use and understand if those organizations were involved in the rules-making process. We might not get some of the weird stuff that seems to come out every now and then from the FED. The point that I'm trying to make is that none of those 3 organizations is an official or approved rules source; the FED and it's appointed state bodies are the sole sources extant.