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Originally posted by Tim C
FEDlandia DOES NOT always follow their own rules. They even change playing rules during the season at times.
Just a touch about Tim Stevens:
Garth Benham has a fine article on THIS WEBSITE about Tim and his postion with Washington and FED you had outta give it a read.
Tim is quite a scholar, a good football offical and a long time FED/NCAA umpire. He has represented District Eight (PNW) on the FED baseball rules committee for the past two years.
Tim is also the event coordinator for the WIAA (Washington equivilant to the OSAA) and stages their state championship competitions.
I just called Tom Welter (Head of the OSAA) and asked him about "conformance" to FED rules. At this time Oregon is using a different timing structure in debate than the National Federation and therefore they are not following the rules. They are suffering no penalties.
As Tom put it, "Tee, this would be the same as if we selected to allow six personal fouls before disqualifing a player in a basketball game."
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Still nothing you've said is at odds with what I've claimed. While Tim Stevens may be on the rules committee for baseball, I don't think you find that Washington (or any other state) has or will have a rep on basketball committees as long as they are using the shot clock (or until the NFHS adopts it, all states within a region use one, or the NFHS changes or ignores their policy on conformance).
It's not that I care if they are allowed on the committee or not. I don't have an interest either way. My whole involvement around this issue is that someone wanted an NFHS comment on a shot clock situation when Tim Roden made the statement that the shot clock is not used in NFHS rules. Someone followed that it was an experiment in some states to which I replied that most of the states that are using it are doing so not as an experiment but simply because they want to. I merely stated the NFHS's published position on the matter.
All told, I think the shot clock will eventually come the NFHS. But, when it does, it will probably be phased in over several years. They are many schools that will have to replace equipment to comply. The NFHS will be sensitive to the ever common school budget contraints before implementing it across the nation.
[Edited by Camron Rust on Nov 1st, 2002 at 06:56 PM]