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Originally Posted by shave-tail
I was watching my son play a junior high game. Early in the game a shot goes up and the lead official stops the game calling a Technical Foul and Ejected a player for an elbow to the face.
I told the father that the only time I ever called this was when a punch was thrown (ejection).
After the game the father when to the official....calmly and asked what happened? The official said that the player (his son) elbowed the player in the face and that is an automatic ejection. The official said it was not intentional or flagrant and felt sorry about calling it, but any time this happens ejection automatic.
Now, I got out of officating BB about 2 years ago, after many years and told the father that I had never heard of anything like that, but I would ask the pros. So is this something that I missed over the years or is this something new since I got out of the game or something just made up?
Thank in advance.
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In the 2002-03 season the NFHS changed the penalty for excessively swinging one's arms/elbows from a technical foul to a violation.
In the rules book for that same year under Point of Emphasis #4
Rough Play the NFHS wrote the following:
Excess Swinging of Arm(s)/Elbow(s)
-When there is no contact with an opponent is now a violation.
-If contact is made, the official must judge the severity of the act and possibly even determine intent.
-A player control foul, an intentional foul or a flagrant foul may be called.
(All of these fouls listed would be
PERSONAL fouls if the contact occurred during a live ball, as was the case in your situation. So if the official called a technical foul, he goofed that part. However, a
flagrant personal foul that carries a disqualification as part of the penalty certainly is a possibility on this play. That is up to the judgment of the calling official. [If the contact occurred during a dead ball then the type of foul would be technical.])
This is still the current rule for NFHS games.