IAABO Handbook

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

I agree. It sucks that NFHS, who claims to promote "education-based athletics" look to make a buck by forcing people to buy the rulebook, when the NCAA makes theirs available free for download as PDFs. I'm lucky that my association gave out free copies of the rulebook at the first meeting we had this year to anyone registered with the MPSSAA. The governing bodies of non-NFHS sports in the US also have rulebooks that can be accessible for free via an app, such as the IFAB Laws of the Game app for USSF (soccer) and the USA Hockey rulebook that can be downloaded as a PDF.

Does MIAA give out rulebooks to their associations for their registered officials?

The NFHS has to fund its operations somehow. They do that by rulebook sales. How else do you propose they generate revenue?

If your association gave them out, they just bought them and put the price in your dues. That is what our state association does. They buy them in bulk and charge the officials for them in their state dues.

The NCAA can make theirs for free because they have billion dollar TV contracts. Soccer is also funded by levels that make lots of money.

It just baffles me that people think they should get something for free and the people that provide it should just do it for free. Can I ask what you do for a living and then ask that you quit charging people for it and do it for free?

[ilyazhito]

State associations get their money via membership dues, so I wouldn't be too surprised if the NFHS also got their money from dues paid to it by member state associations. NFHS also gets money from advertising, as you can see from the ads for Smitty and Bison in the basketball rulebook.