Rule Change Proposals

[mcdanrd]

Rule 3 Section 5

Eyeglasses are permitted but must be held securely in place with a band designed soley for this purpose. The band must attach to each earpiece of the eyeglasses and fit snuggly around the back of the head.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by mcdanrd

Rule 3 Section 5

Eyeglasses are permitted but must be held securely in place with a band designed soley for this purpose. The band must attach to each earpiece of the eyeglasses and fit snuggly around the back of the head.

Sorta like contact cement?

[mj]

Originally Posted by mcdanrd

Rule 3 Section 5

Eyeglasses are permitted but must be held securely in place with a band designed soley for this purpose. The band must attach to each earpiece of the eyeglasses and fit snuggly around the back of the head.

Am I missing something? My book has nothing about eyeglasses in this part.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by mj

Am I missing something? My book has nothing about eyeglasses in this part.

I think that's what would make it a rule change.

[mj]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I think that's what would make it a rule change.

Alrighty then...

[CoachP]

What kind of chance is there to have FED adopt that the opponents of the free thrower can stand ON the 12" block (closest to the baseline) during a FT? (Same as NCAA)

And end all restrictions on the release?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by CoachP

What kind of chance is there to have FED adopt that the opponents of the free thrower can stand ON the 12" block (closest to the baseline) during a FT? (Same as NCAA)

And end all restrictions on the release?

Approximately zero, imo. The rules have gone from "rim" to "release" back to "rim" in the past several years. And, FED is "happy" with the results from some study a couple of years ago about how meny rebounds each team gets. So, I think this would be a dead issue for at least a couple more years.

[Texas Aggie]

Let the coach use the sideline to coach his team, if he can't handle that, he should have no box, eliminate the half measures.

This logic was used when they adopted the coaching box in the '90s. It was said then that if Fed gave them some leeway to get up and move around a little, they wouldn't have any latitude to argue they should move around more. Obviously, many if not most coaches move around much more and create a problem for us in trying to manage it.

If we adopt the NCAA box, they'll be from end line to table and complain when we try to get them back in the box as they do now.

With that said, I think the box should be the length of the bench (set in distance) and no more.