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Originally posted by canuckrefguy
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Originally posted by Mlancaster
The lesson: It's time to either give up the college game or go back to a 50/50 split, so that both come naturally.
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The real lesson is for the basketball community to at least try and move more towards standardization of the rules. Something not to bet the farm on.
Here in Canada, at one point, you could conceivably ref with FIBA, NCAA Mens, and NFHS rules all in one week.
What gets me is that none of the rules differences (esp. between NCAA Men/Women) seem to have any rationale behind them, except to try and be different.
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I'm just glad that the NFHS has the same rules for Boys/Girls. Of course, some states go and mess that up by adding differences for them.
I would like to see the NHFS and NCAA M+W combine their rulesets and mechanics. The different mechanics are simply that, different. I don't thing any one is better than the other. The rules are so close that most people (players and coaches included) don't know the differences. The only "real" obstacle in that would be changes that cost money. The NCAA could more easily require costly changes on colleges than the NFHS can on HS's. All other obstacles are emotional or turf wars (I doubt the NCAA Men's or Women's committees would be willing to give up autonomy).
[Edited by Camron Rust on Jun 10th, 2003 at 12:43 PM]