Washington State Interpretation Mtg.

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Camron Rust


There you go again making unfounded assertions. Nearly every one of the people on the rules committee are accomplished officials.

You may not like they decisions they make nor the quality of their writing but that doesn't mean anything about them being "officials".

Camron,

My statement was rather tongue and cheek. If they are accomplished officials, they sure know how to create rules that use little or no common sense. They should know that officials are not looking at contact from feet first. I also know there are individuals on that committee that are not officials. We had a representative from our state that was on the NF committee (Current IHSA Executive Director) and was not an official. So I am not sure you know the background of everyone that was on the committee. And the editor of the NF Basketball book was not very liked when she was here in our state. Obviously you are not aware of all the dynamics of my statement or you would not be taking issue with it. Just because you once blew a whistle, does not mean you act like an understanding official when you sit on the committee. The NCAA Committee makes rules with basically all coaches and the NF follows them in many cases regardless of how silly the rules are. That to me is not thinking like an official when you know the problems you are going to create in application of the rules you set forth.

Peace