[JetMetFan]

Here's what's in the NFHS Rule book this season regarding post play:

1. POST PLAY

New information has been added to the Rule Book that addresses cleaning up post play.

It is legal for offensive and defensive players to touch when both are maintaining a legally established position. Illegal contact on a post player is any tactic using hands or arms or just generally demonstrates rough physical movements that allows a player on offense or defense to control the movement of an opposing player.

It is a foul and should be ruled as such when:

a. An opponent is displaced from a legally established or obtained position;
b. An arm-bar is extended and displaces an opponent;
c. A locked and/or extended elbow displaces an opponent;
d. A leg or knee is used in the rear of an opponent to hold or displace;
e. Holding, hooking, slapping, pinning or pushing the leg or body of an opponent;
f. An offensive post player “backs-down” and displaces the defender once that defender has established a legal guarding position.

CONTACT (10-6-12, clarified): The change in 2014-15 identified specific acts that are to be ruled fouls when applied on a ball handler/dribbler. Changes have been made by the committee to clarify when a player becomes a ball handler. When a player becomes the ball handler the provisions of rule 10-6-12 will apply. The changes emphasize a person in a post position should be considered a ball handler when he/she receives the ball. Upon reception of the ball, all fouls outlined ruled.

Now where I find issue with these statements is NF doesn't define a post player in the rule book (if you do a search of the rule book online the word "post" is only found four times and all instances are in this season's PsOE). NCAA - women and men - do. That gives college officials a better starting point in terms of handling post contact.