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Old Fri Jan 13, 2017, 04:53pm
BigCat BigCat is offline
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Originally Posted by Welpe View Post
You're stretching a rule that doesn't apply in this situation to make it fit.

The rules for when team control starts and when it ends are clear:

ART. 2

A team is in control of the ball:

a. When a player of the team is in control.

b. While a live ball is being passed among teammates.

c. During an interrupted dribble.

d. When a player of the team has disposal of the ball for a throw-in.

ART. 3

Team control continues until:

a. The ball is in flight during a try or tap for goal.

b. An opponent secures control.

c. The ball becomes dead.


There is nothing in Article 3 that says that Team Control has ended yet ergo it hasn't ended. The proper thing to do here is to give the ball back to Team A because nothing in the rules has ended Team Control.

As an aside, only by long lost interpretation do we all know that there shouldn't be a back court violation on a throw-in. A plain reading of the rules says it would be a violation.
No. I'm not stretching. The rules aren't written clearly. I'd bet my own house on this one. The POEs were very clear and should have made it to a place where they could be looked up. Like in the rule book.

I remember each change of the rule and each POE. That's my biggest gripe on nfhs. They say things in a POE but don't include it in the rules. Maybe Billy will come along and find them.

Last edited by BigCat; Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 04:59pm.
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