NFHS 2017-18 Rules Changes

[crosscountry55]

For years, up until the very end, the purists' talking points about one-handed reporting were that high school table personnel were inexperienced and needed to be coddled with simplicity. And all of a sudden, Theresa says:

“This change was made to minimize reporting errors that occur between the officials and the scorekeepers. Two-handed reporting is easier for the scorekeepers to see and comprehend, and it is less confusing.”

I chuckle at the sudden---and welcome---dose of common sense.

All in all, this is the best set of rule changes to come out of the NFHS in the last five years, at least. Kudos to the committee. Well done. Now if the editors can just figure out how to word stuff correctly so there aren't officials out there that think they should report the player's number with one hand and the number of free throws with the other.