Rule Change Proposals

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Originally Posted by ChuckElias

This week, I received a form for making rule change suggestions to the FED. Anybody can get the form and make a suggestion, I guess. But I happen to know a member of the rules committee, so he sends me the form directly. If you have a rule that you think should be changed and you would like me to send it on to the committee, here's your chance!

To be submitted, the change has to be submitted exactly as you think it should read in the book. Also, they want us to note exactly what part of the existing rule would have to be deleted, if necessary. Finally (enough hoops to jump through? ), they ask to note other rules and cases affected by the proposed change.

So it's not enough to say, "I'd like to see them go to the POI for a single technical foul". It needs to be written up precisely as it would appear in next year's rulebook.

I got a tremendous response last year when I asked for case book play proposals, so I hope that you have some ideas to pass along.

This would be good too:

Change the Blarge so that the officials have to come together and decided which happend first instead of reporting the double foul.

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HC may only call time out when the ball is dead and the clock is stopped.

Make the gray shirt officially legal.

Add definitions of "reaching in" and "over the back." Everybody uses those terms, and no amount of whining about them here will ever change that. So give them a sensible definition and then we'll have some ammo to use next time the coach starts hollering about "he's reaching."

Make it a capital offense for anybody on the bench to yell "TRAVEL!" Ever. For any reason.

By state adoption, the "electronic fence" can be employed to keep coaches in their boxes while the clock is running.

Require scorekeepers and clock operators to be state trained and certified. When students are employed to run the clock/book, cell phones must be handed over to the referee, and no other students may sit within 25 feet of the score table.