NCAA Contact Rule

[jkumpire]

Mike,

I think the NCAA is trying to give guidence on what is or isn't malicious. I'd be willing to bet that when people started looking at malicious contact ejections they heard and or saw a significant number of them being for hits above the waist which were not intent to injure, just to dislodge the ball. So the committee decided to add the language to help umpires fine tune their judgment.

At least that's what I took from what I heard in Chicago and have seen other places. Bob, I assume you were in Chicago, did you get the same impression?