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Originally Posted by MCBear
If a player can get to the ball with ANY body part, let's play and give credit for an athletic play.
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While I wouldn't have any objection to a change in the rules, I would never have characterized any contact below the waist that I have personally seen as an athletic play. It has always been the result of somebody completely missing the ball or shanking a pass so badly that it just manages to hit someone in the leg right before it hits the ground. I can honestly say that in my five short years of officiating volleyball that I have never seen a ball saved after a contact below the waist.