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Originally Posted by GarthB
Pete, what I meant was this: Fed, in the first paragraph on page one in all sports rulebooks allows that member states may modify the rules. For example in Washington in basketball, we have added a shot clock for women's games. In North Carolina, apparently, they have gone back to the old missed base appeal rule. That is allowed by FED. As I said, there is a price for that. Washington cannot have a representative serve on the rules committee as long as we modify the rules.
What FED had no provision for is to accept the Rules, but change the interpretation as in last year's debat over the "Gorillar Arm" move. While there was disagreement over the interp, FED had no provision for allowing any interpretation other than theirs. As another example, a state cannot decide to leave the FPSR in, but intepret it differently.
I'm sure Rich understood what I meant. He was just a bit overreaching in his initital post.
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A state could most certainly do that. What penalty would they face, other than losing it's seat on the rules committee?
It's a Federation of State HS Associations. Will the NFHS throw a state out who interprets differently? I've not heard of any such thing.
But if you wish to "win" this "academically" rather than acknowledge that a state can really do anything it wants, feel free. You "win." You and Tee can high five or whatever it is you two do all you wish.