Philosophical discussion - should NF and NCAA rules be the same?

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Odd Duck

First, I really don't care which set of rules are used at the HS level. Just let me know the rules you want used and I will enforce them evenly to the best of my ability.

That being said, the only people (unless you include rec/summer ball) moving between rule sets are officials. I like others have seen officials kick a rule application because they were thinking one set and working a game govern by another set. Who's fault is that? It is certainly NOT the rules committee or governing boby...it is the official's. It will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get anyone to change their rule set just for the sake of change

Or for the sake of the official.

If the official cannot keep his rules/mechanics straight then he or she is not as good as they thought and should give up one of the levels.

I really do not see how using the NCAA rules in high school makes the high school game better. If it doesn't make the game better, why change? Given the small percentage of officials that are constantly moving back and forth, it seems silly to make the changes simply to make their life easier.

You make some great points and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Others gave up, shut down mentally when I challenged their interlect. The only problem that I see is when you get to the upper level/final games and the talk about which officials to use surfaces. Let's get the best officials available is usually the thought process. Well the best officials availalbe tends to center mainly around who gets paid the most to work basketball which is college officials. If you're a HS ref and you ever watched a college ref work a state playoff game, you know what I getting at here. Then you have a mis-interp of a rule and all hell breaks lose. We get it both ways too, you know that. If you put a hs ref on a final game and they miss a call, should have went with the college guys.....

Somewhere down the line, I think we need to make it easier for the people who have to call the games so that you can truly use any official from any discipline. NCAA women to WNBA. Isn't that a pleasure to see. It helps the officials and the assigners and the game. To me it's a win-win but that's just my opinion.