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Originally Posted by ilyazhito

Stuff like this makes me wish that the men's and women's committees would get together and unify the shot clock rules. They already have the same rule for offensive rebounds and frontcourt fouls, so why not make everything else consistent.

They tried that and it was a disaster. Women's basketball spent a lot of time trying to be relevant with different rules and wanted things to be done differently. Let us face it, women and men do not play basketball the same. One game is largely above the ring and the other is below the ring more than high school boys. So no you will not have the same committees when one sport makes over a billion dollars for their tournament and the other loses money every year in their tournament. The main reason for example Men's basketball does not go to quarters, because Men's basketball would lose a media timeout or two doing such a thing. The committees need to state separate so they can effectively address the trends in each game appropriately. I started working Women's college ball then turned to Men's college where I wanted to be. I never worked consistently both at the same time and am glad I did not have to. Hard enough to keep track of NF and NCAA Rules for one code. Just the same reason you do not see officials that get to the NBA go through the Men's college ranks as a standard.

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