Slapping Backboard

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Joe McCain
Folks! This is as easy as they get.

Have you people bothered to actually read the rules? You know, that cute little book you might have paid for.

Slapping the backboard IS a technical in both NFHS and the NCAA PERIOD!

We don't have the luxury of choosing to call it only if we want to, and it most unequivicably it is not, nor can it ever be either Basket Interferance or Goaltending.

SHEEESH!

Folks, this is as easy as the rules that define it.

Have you bothered to actually read the rules lately, Joe? Those cute little books you might have paid for?

My rule books from both rulesets say that the act of slapping the backboard must be an intentional act. Iow, it is a judgement call whether the player was going for a legitimate block or was just trying to draw attention to himself or maybe vent a little. If you judge that the player whacking the board was going for the block, then it sureashell isn't a technical foul- no matter how hard you might whack the board or how much the board shakes.

Slapping the backboard is not an automatic technical foul in both the NFHS and NCAA rulesets -PERIOD!

SHEESH!