New Rules 2020
 

Any word on any new rules or interpretations for 2020?

Any ideas how COVID 19 will impact rules on player safety and officials?

Usually, the rules do not come out until around the middle of the month. So we might have another week or more before they announce them.

Peace

I know your question is probably concerning NFHS, but the NCAA has put out a bulletin stating that any rules changes that require financial investment by member institutions are being delayed another year.

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The OhioHSAA sent out an email last week stating that the NFHS would use the 2019-20 Baseball and Softball Rules, Casebooks, and Simplified & Illustrated books would be the Rules Set for the 2020-21 school year because very few States even played a partial season this Spring. A 2020-22 Baseball Umpires Manual will be published; the current Softball Umpires Manual is for 2019-21 school years.

Who knows what is store for the Fall and Winter Sports.

MTD, Sr.

With Bated Breath ...
 

While the NFHS press release on the new Basketball Rules for 2019-20 was dated May 22, 2019, esteemed and non-esteemed Forum members started discussing the new rules on May 15, 2019.

Old Wine; New Flask
 

I for one would expect there to be no announcement of "new rules"--per se; but rather an avowed emphasis on certain selected pre-existing rules to be enforced. Seeing that said "pre-existing rules" would be selected for emphasis by an ad-hoc meeting of our superiors that would decide which rules that we officials are required to emphasize in season 20-21; furthermore, the consequences of non-compliance.

Like Peanut Butter Without Jelly ...
 

Hey? What would annual NFHS rule changes be without some reference to fashion issues?

New Rules Announced for 2020-2021

Peace

Yet another shot clock proposal shot down. :)

The game is going to hell and a handbasket. How do we move on? :eek:

Peace

I viewed the hyperlink JRut provided; I must say that those "rules changes" were not--and I use the word with all due respect--significant at all.

And what's funny is the same sensationalist crowd will still pay money to go see games.

Pretty standard for NFHS. Every few years there is something "significant," but more often than not this is the norm.

NFHS Press Release ...
 

You Are Outta Here ...
 

Here in Connecticut, officials have been told by our state interscholastic sports governing body that once the coach, with no assistants, is ejected, the ejected coach has fifteen minutes to be replaced by a non-student over the age of eighteen. It is not the officials responsibility to check for proof of proper certification, we don't even ask. No replacement after fifteen minutes leads a forfeit by the team without a coach, even if they are leading in the game.

Never comes up in high school varsity or junior varsity games, but does occasionally come up in high school freshman games (especially the visiting team), or middle school games.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.U...=0&w=183&h=174

I actually had such a situation come up 2 years ago working a middle school basketball game. Away coach gets ejected and has to leave, he grabs his clipboard and is out the door before we get lined up to shoot the free throws. There are no assistants or other personnel from the school available. The home school's AD came up and asked if a parent could coach, but knowing those pesky state by-laws and having had it mentioned a few times in state clinics over the past 20 years for various sports, I explained that no, a parent could not cover unless they were a school district employee. After a few seconds of thinking she then offered herself to sit on the bench and coach the visiting team. Since she was a district employee and it was a game between schools in the same district it was fine with me. The team actually played better without their coach and ended up losing by 5 when the were down by 15 when he got tossed. The time requirement isn't explecit here though, a "reasonable" amount of time is allowed, to me that means if they are working on a solution give them time, if they are just sitting there doing nothing let them know we need someone, if they still have no ideas call it, 15 minutes to wait for a plan is too long, but if someone is driving there right now, I'll wait if necessary, as that to me is reasonable.
Something like that also happened when I was in HS. I was the official scorekeeper for the varsity and JV teams, and the JV coach gets tossed and walk to the locker room. The refferee comes over to their bench as asks if there is another coach, I jump up and grab to baseball coach who is watching and was there to supervise the varsity game, we still joke about it today 18 years later.

What about colors of face masks? Predominant color of jerseay and all must match?:D

This announcement may or may not reflect all that was changed. Often, the initial announcement covers just some major things.

And this announcement typically covers the announced rules changes. Sometimes there are unannounced changes in both the rules book and casebook that are more significant than the announced changes. Only a line-by-line comparison of the new vs. the old ferrets those unannounced changes out.

Freddy The Ferret ...
 

And we all know who's the official Official Forum curator of these line by line changes.

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.n...=0&w=300&h=300

Hey Freddy. Be careful, it looks like you're putting on the COVID 15.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye, 1968) ...
 

I certainly hope so. Through IAABO, and the Connecticut interscholastic sports governing body, I suggested a minor rule change for this year. I heard it through the grapevine that my suggested change made it's way all the way up the ladder to the NFHS Basketball Rules Committee as an agenda item with a favorable outlook.

We have the “Mikan Rule”, the “Alcindor Rule”, and the "Trent Tucker Rule".

I really wanted the "BillyMac Rule".

And Read All Over ...
 

There will be an upcoming change in the NFHS Mechanics Manual:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/17...g?v=1589026086

*Congratulations BillyMac! Impressive---you are quite a contributor!

Announced Rules Changes
 

Basketball Rules Changes - 2020-21
By NFHS on May 12, 2020
(https://www.nfhs.org/sports-resource...anges-2020-21/)

2-12-5: The intent of the rule change is to avoid gamesmanship and ensure the time for replacement remains within the rules. This rule change makes 2-12-5 consistent with 2-12-4 “second horn” requirement.
Rationale: The addition of a warning signal at the end of the replacement period admonishes the coach and team to prepare for resumption of the game.

5-4-1, 2: When a coach has been removed, this rule clarifies that if no other coach or school personnel are available, then the game is forfeited unless state association rules determine otherwise.
Rationale: Rewritten to clarify the forfeiture process and adds language and a new article to give directions when there is no coach or other school personnel, on the bench.

10-6-Penalty: To clarify that officials are not required to issue a warning prior to issuing a technical foul. However, they may issue a warning when the offense is judged not to be major.
Rationale: To clarify the official does not have to give a warning to the coach. The warning is one of the tools used to help improve behavior before a technical foul has to be given.

Can't wait to see the inevitable fashion police POE.

Don't Go Away Mad, Just Go Away ...
 

Thanks, but according to the update Freddy posted today, I'm doubtful that my change got accepted.

Too bad.

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender. I could've been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Surprised no rules on player and officials safety in the era of coronavirus :confused:

What exactly did you expect to see? Can't legislate away germs and bacteria in athletic competition.

There are policies and guidelines about blood, blood on uniforms, players who appear concussed. It is not so farfetched for NFHS to promulgate policies about players who are coughing, say, or appear feverish. Perhaps not in the real world, but it is, not so farfetched for NFHS, in its infinite wisdom, to think it can legislate.

I would not be surprised if states come up with some policy about things that would be appropriate for what takes place considering the virus. This was still early in the process when they met. And I do not see them coming up with a policy when each state and jurisdiction has their own concerns and likely issues with the virus. I do not know what policy is going to prevent the spread if we do not even know if how to get a handle on this situation as a whole.

Peace

Ahead Of His Time ...
 

Agree. If policies are needed, the states will take care of it.

I just recalled that several years ago, during a really nasty flu season, I had a partner who, after coaches and captains hand-shaking, took a small bottle of hand sanitizer out of his warm-up jacket pocket and cleaned his hands.

I guess he was years ahead of his time.

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What are you expecting—a regulation stating that an athlete who appears sick or ill cannot participate? That will be easily enforceable. :rolleyes:

I was not proposing such guidelines, which I would not like to see. I was simply suggesting that we can't put anything beyond the NFHS wizards. Hence the blue font, which, I thought, meant sarcasm.