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Originally posted by crew
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Originally posted by RecRef
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
One of the worst ones was the old rule that,if a player committed a foul,it was mandatory that he/she had to raise their hand to identify themselves to the scorer.
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I would like to see this part come back. - You did it now take the blame like a man.
When I was coaching I made my kids raise their hand. Kids did not like it but as time went on they realized that they were fouling less than other teams.
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what if the ref blew the call and no one had any idea who the foul was on(i.e. off ball foul). that seams like a silly tech and for what, cause a kid had a phantom foul called on him and now gets a tech for not bailing the ref out.
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The mechanic was that you bird-dogged practically every foul so that the player called was aware that the foul was on him.The problem that the rule was trying to address was that scorers were supposedly having problems recording fouls on the proper player.This problem was due more to us officials being lax in our reporting mechanics to the scorer than actually being the fault of the players.The rules committee finally recognised this,and when they took the rule out,they stressed the importance of us reporting fouls properly.That pretty much took care of the problem.Personally,I always felt that there was a big difference between a player being a little frustrated when he committed a foul at a bad time,and the player actually committing an unsportsmanlike act.Taking that particular rule out let us use some judgement again,instead of having to call an automatic T for a relatively harmless act.