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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
1) I'm sure that he's a nice guy, but I've never understood this hero worship of Howard Mayo. FWIW my state rules interpreter is a current member of the NFHS rules committee. That doesn't mean that he knows the answer to every rules question or that anyone has to agree with what he says.
2) BTW what Howard wrote above about calling this a fumble is incorrect. The player in question did not lose control of the ball accidently. Therefore this doesn't meet the definition of a fumble. In this case the player purposely dropped the ball. As I stated in an earlier post the ruling for case play 4.44.3 Situation A part (d) tells us that this is, in fact, the start of a dribble.
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1) There is only one God and that is I- Nevadaref. All others are false.
2) Sorry, God Junior(hereafter known as Junior), but I disagree with you. That makes me a heretic.
Howard didn't call it a fumble. He said that it
might a fumble. I acknowledge that you are omnipotent and all-knowing.......but to us mere mortals, when a player
drops the ball, we have to judge whether that drop was accidental or not, and then if we do rule it as being deliberate,we have to additionally judge what action was started by the drop. Depending on our judgment, we then
may rule it to be a fumble, or we
may rule it to be a pass, or we
may even rule it to be the start of a dribble. The only two officials in the world who actually
KNOW what that player's intent was as soon as the ball has left his hands seem to be JAR and Junior. You're both better men than I am, Gunga Din.