Fighting

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The NFHS puts them into two different buckets.

A fight is a fight. We all know what a fight looks like.

We've all seen such fights back in elementary school at noon recess.

Unless two fights happen with an (undefined) interval of time in between, I like the idea of "one fight bucket".

However, the NFHS probably needs the second bucket for players who come off the bench but don't fight.

The NFHS really wants to to limit the number of team members on the court during a fight.

The NFHS's answer is to treat these "observers" as "fighters", even if they don't "fight"

Thus we get these complex fight rules.

[JRutledge]

I would not treat them all the same when different players are involved. If A1 throws a punch at B1 and B2 comes and does something to A1, I would not consider that the same act.

Obviously, the players coming off the bench are treated differently if they participate in the fight or they are "peacemakers" on some level. I do not need to restate that fact. Also, I might not even get B2 for fighting if they are on the court if all that happened was a chest bump. Honestly, this is a HTBT situation and knowing the bigger picture of what was done to ultimately know, but that is why you have to take your time and do what you see as a crew. Been in these situations and not fun and a lot of confusion. Had something like this happen this summer at a camp (they were using HS rules) for a college conference and all the debate over what happened was more of a headache than applying the rules.

Peace