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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Approximately four (4) or five (5) years ago the NFHS Rules Committee published a play in its supplemental intepretations and gave an incorrect ruling
Too many members of the Rules Committee are not real experts in the rules.
The U.S., Canada, Australia, and other members of the former British Empire base their laws and rulings on English common law.
The NBCUSC wrote the rules for NFHS and NCAA up to and including the 1977-78 or 1978-79 season
Notice how the NCAA has used the word “status” in NCAA R4-S2-A3b. The words “location” and “status” mean the same thing in these definitions.
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Mark, no offense, but all of that is irrelevant. Every single point you make has no bearing at all on the question, particularly when you try to support your view of the FED rule by discussing the NCAA rule. They have nothing to do with one another.
The only relevant thing in your whole post is when you quote the actual rule under discussion:
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The rule we have been discussing is NFHS R4-S4-A3 which states (and the wording has been virtually unchanged for over 45 years): “A ball which is in flight retains the same location as when it was last in contact with a player or the court.”
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The rule definitively and unambiguously defines exactly "where the ball is". Its location (including its inbound/out of bounds status and/or its backcourt/frontcourt status)
IS wherever it last touched the court or a player. Whatever you think it
should say or mean, it actually means exactly what it actually says.
Frankly, I'm astounded that you and JR can read this plain English sentence and come to such a contradictory conclusion.