2006 Proposed Rule Revisions

[coach41]

1. 28 ft coaching box - Fine by me, some coaches tend to roam anyway.

2. permitting gray shirt for officials - While I haven't used Grey shirts in high school play, i have used grey for adult leagues/tournaments. Associations may have to standarize though. It would look silly to have greys/zebra stripes at the same time

3. 15 minute mark for submitting player roster and starters - Not good out here. Some of the public schools have enough trouble getting things together at the 10 min. mark.

4. Home team wears even numbers, visitors odd - As others have stated, it's expensive and the public schools who don't have a lot of money will balk.

5. require headbands/sweatbands to be same color as jersey - No opinion.


6. eliminate closely guarded while dribbling - I guess I would support this as it would match the girls rules here in CA. However, I would be more open to leaving this alone and CA allowing the girls to play by the same rules as the boys.


7. include a foul committed during a throw-in by the throwing team as a team control foul - Sure.


8. stopping the game clock on made goals in the final minute of the 4thQ and extra periods - Blah. Some games go long enough as is. If a team is behind, it would just encourage them to keep fouling and stretch those last minutes to an eternity.


9. play in halves instead of quarters - Interesting idea. I would think it would affect coaches more than officials. It might be good as the game should get into a pretty good flow without the quarter break.


10. entend the game length to 36 minutes - Probably not.


11. Only permitting players on the court to request a TO, head coach during a dead ball only - Leave it only. It's fine as is.



12. eliminate lag time if officials have definite knowledge of the time - N/A


13. change from a held ball to an OOB violation on the thrower when the thrower holds the ball across the boundary plane and a defender grasps it simultaneously with the thrower - N/A


14. "a closely guarded count shall be terminated when the offensive player in control of the ball gets his/her head and shoulders past the defensive player."
(Mike Dick of Iowa Girls HS ath union writes of a situation in which the offensive player is cg for three seconds and then dribbles around the defender who chases the offensive player from behind but within six feet, "By current rule, the closely guarded count would continue." Hmmmm...while this clarification would be nice, it seems that someone needs to read the definition of guarding.) - Complicated enough as is.....I say leave it alone.



15. allow a shot clock by state adoption - N/A


16. courtside replay for state championship games - N/A


17. assessing only one delay of game warning for any type of delay of game situation per team instead of one for each of the three types. - Yes

18. allow pregame dunking, but not hanging on the ring - No


19. coach is out of box and "just coaching" - first offense = warning, second offense = T; coach is out of box and behaving inappropriately - first offense = T (submitted by Mary Struckhoff) - Harsh, but perhaps the rule should just say, if the coach is out of the box REGARDLESS of what he is doing, we should warn him.


20. Make signal #33 (current player control signal) also used for reporting a team control foul. - Sure, some officials are using the college "punch" mechanic.