OOB or NO CALL?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Jimgolf

By inference, the POE must apply to a player that is not dribbling, since there is already a rule covering the situation.

Unfortunately, "inference" isn't needed to make the call that the NFHS is telling us to make. There is an explicit "reference" in the POE that already states "an offensive player" can't go around a defensive player by running out of bounds. Not "an offensive player without the ball", Jim and MTD Sr., but "an offensive player". "Dribblers" are "offensive players", aren't they? The POE states that it's a T if an "offensive player" runs OOB to go around a defensive player. Pretty plain and explicit language, methinks.