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Originally Posted by JRutledge
You make it sound like everything about Men's and Women's basketball is exactly the same. They clearly are not the same. The expectations of the coaches are not the same. They way the game is played is not the same. The style of play is the same. Why would you expect the rules to be the same? Maybe this is why they do not allow officials to work both games.
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And yet, for all the differences, they play by nearly the exact same rules. That's one of the real beauties of the game. No two teams play it exactly the same way. And yet we all play (at least within rule sets) by exactly the same rules. So it should be a simple matter to come together and settle on a single set of rules, perhaps with some parameters as has been stated.
The only exception, I think, would be the NBA. With team owners wanting to showcase their players' talent, and having a financial stake in the league, they are always going to want to tweak something here and there. Both to increase their ROI, and just because they have the money, power, and influence to do it.