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Originally Posted by stiffler3492
Ah. Well if I had any editing power to the NCAA rulebook, I'd make sure that the definition of flagrant personal foul includes the live ball provision so I don't have to go chasing all around the book.
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Despite some officials desire to have everything spelled out in every rule, the book would be 500 pages if they wrote it like that....to cover all the compound effects of other rules.
Any rule set is far more powerful and understandable when it is concise and written on principles and concepts rather the enumerating all of the possibilities. The NFHS and NCAA are OK in that regard, not perfect, however. Rules that list everything about everything in every rule just turn into a memorization of an enormously long list of rules that are too many to be memorized. It if far easier to blend 2-3 basic principle to come to the right answer.