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Old Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:38am
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Originally Posted by AKOFL View Post
I'm trying to wrap my head around a common foul on this. Assigner said u cant have a common foul if you think the player "didn't mean to do it". Guess i better get clarification from him on this
Color me confused.

We had our first meeting last night, the "new rules" meeting, and our interpreter "pretty much" said the same thing, paraphrased as, "With no contact, excessive swinging will be a violation. With no excessive swinging, an elbow to an opponent's head will either be incidental, or intentional. With excessive swinging the foul will be intentional, or flagrant".

Where's the common foul?

He was "pretty much" relying on a Power-point based on NFHS "language". When I asked him under what conditions an official would charge a common foul, he told us that he would discuss it at the next meeting.

So my question to the Forum, particularly IAABO members: Will we ever charge a common foul if an opponent gets struck in the head by a moving elbow?
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