NFHS PowerPoint Presentation
 

When you listen to and watch either your state's voice-over version of this year's NFHS PowerPoint presentation on new rules, or to the NFHS presentation itself, see if you also can detect a mistake I think they make.
The words "or backboard" needed to be removed from last year's 9-1-3a, and they did in this year's rulebook. The NFHS presentation refers to this under its discussion of the "new" rule 9-1-3h, that "the words 'and backboard' were removed from this rule section", alluding to, I think the revised 9-1-3a. But also see if you notice how they wrongly also say that those words "and backboard" were removed from 9-1-3f when they discuss that slide. Removing those words from 9-1-3f was never in dispute and was not done in this year's book either.
This came up in another discussion on the matter.
See if you agree that this is obviously a mistake in the NFHS presentation. Otherwise we have a contradiction between the rulebook 9-1-3f and what the PowerPoint presentation says.
...Though admittedly on a relatively minor aspect of the free throw rule.

Same boilerplate NFHS PowerPoint presentation was read by a director of another state I officiate in just read right through the slides without recognizing the mistake.

Where can we find NFHS's powerpoint?

"The head coach loses the opportunity to stand during live ball situations if a bench technical foul is assessed."

So, he can stand when the ball is dead? :rolleyes:

during time outs?

The sentence I quoted is exactly what appears in the NFHS powerpoint and is not what the rules say.

I think there might be a couple of different "NFHS PowerPoint" presentations distributed.
My comments are in reference to what some refer to as the boilerplate NFHS PowerPoint that many states use and "personalize" by having a state director do a voice-over reading of the words that are on the screen. The two states in which I work both do it that way. After a while it is available as a download, but for now it's only available on each state's respective website.
I think there's some other NFHS PowerPoint that some have mentioned which can be purchased from them. Not sure.

This from an official who mentioned to me he is a Texas rules interpreter:

"FYI - Received a rules clarification from Theresia Wynn at NFHS and she stated the removal of the “or backboard” in 9-1-3f was a mistake on the NFHS rules slideshow. Also, she stated the PowerPoint slide for rule 9-1-3f can be removed."