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Originally Posted by bainsey
Or, the soccer rules committee can't think of a legitimate reason not to use video devices -- which are inexpensive and so readily available these days -- to teach that sport. And yes, I believe the NFHS likes to keep such rules similar among their sports, so what makes basketball so different? Isn't it silly for such things to be illegal? If not, why not?
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It is not just what I believe, it is fact that the NF likes to have rules or policies that cross sports when possible. I have heard that from people on the committee and from one of the editors of a couple of rulebooks stated the very same thing. I guess one part of the process to approve a rule is to run it by other sports committees and get some feedback. Now with that being said this could be a different culture in soccer that is not in other sports. So I could see a change, but I do know that in football there was no mention of that change. And football is a sport that uses video a lot and something tells me that might not be allowed in the near future. Basketball maybe but video is used for all kinds of things in the culture. I would think at the NF level, they do not want the most technologically savvy school to have an advantage. I know nothing about soccer coaching and overall strategy like I do in other sports, but I think there would be a significant blowback for that kind of change.
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