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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
BTW can someone cite a rule that says to award the opponent the FIRST free throw when a team commits a common foul after already having six team fouls in a half? 
I believe that there is a serious oversight in the rules here. |
My question has nothing at all to do with the OP. Although the situation in the OP is what got me thinking about it. It is a totally separate and definitely serious question. I believe that the NFHS rules writers screwed up
MASSIVELY!!!
Look at how "bonus free throw" is defined in 4-8-1. The rule clearly says that it is the
SECOND free throw awarded, IF THE FIRST free throw is successful. So what do we call that
FIRST free throw? (The
PENALTY, perhaps.) And what rule tells us to award it? I don't see one in the book.
It seems to me that there was an oversight in defining the bonus this way. The penalty section following 10-6 says to award the bonus free throw, if the first one is successful on the teams 7th, 8th, and 9th team fouls, yet no where in that penalty section is the official instructed BY RULE to award that FIRST free throw!
We need another sentence in #2 stating to award one free throw for team fouls 7, 8, and 9. It's just not there.
