Jim quoted the suggestion and rationale word for word.

It's just too weird. I frankly don't believe it. I think it's a joke.

You forgot the next step.

....and the safety timeout would be revoked the next year.

Exactly. Perhaps even mid-year.

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The IGHSAU (Iowa Girls) used to start their games this way..... THIS CENTURY!

Used to? They've changed?

Unfortunately, it's not. :( I've obtained a copy of the actual rules proposal document, and that is really what it says! :eek:

During the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, the Iowa Girls decided who would start the game with the ball by a coin-toss during the captains' meeting. I believe it was the home team who would call "heads" or "tails," and the winner of the toss received the ball. There was no option of deferring if a team desired to do so. The possession arrow would then be set towards the loser of the toss. The reasoning, from what I heard, is that the officials weren't being consistent in throwing the ball straight up for the jump ball and the players risked injury by having to jump to start the game. I don't know for sure which was the true reason behind the coin toss.

The Iowa Girls Union also implemented a state adaptation where the possession arrow reversed as soon as the ball was at the disposal of the player for the throw-in. That changed for the 2006-07 season.

So currently do you toss the ball or a coin at the start of the game?

I still think the best way to keep a game moving in the last couple of minutes is to allow a throw in option for all fouls, possibly including shooting fouls. This removes most incentive to foul to stop the clock unless one team just can't inbound the ball.

They quit doing the coin toss the year I left. There are some other differences, as jalons states. The arrow was one (wasn't aware they'd changed it.) It was the one difference I liked, personally.
Also, they line up for free throws the college way (lower block empty, top block can be occupied.) Girls allow the coaching box, boys do not. Previously, there were no indirect Ts in girls ball (not sure if these have changed.) There has been a concerted effort lately to make the rules more similar to the boys.

I'd never heard the reasoning that officials were inconsistent. I had heard there was concern over players getting hurt during jump balls, so that's why they went to the coin toss for a few years (I'm pretty sure it was more than 2 seasons.) My guess is the guy who proposed the safety timeout is related to the one who got the coin toss getting implemented.

Agreed. I wish it was a joke. :(
The rationale for ending team control is not quite as lame; even though the proposal itself is less than horrifying.

What is the point in this proposal? Is it aimed at introducing some kind of "loose ball foul" into the HS game? Is it aimed at eliminating the 10 count when a ball goes into back court? Eliminating 3 seconds durring an interrupted dribble or when the ball is knocked away? What exactly is the submitter hoping to accomplish?

Edited to add: I just noticed this was submitted by the same person as the proposal to combine team and player control fouls into a single "offensive foul" rule. I guess you'd have to make the change above in order to actually combine these since you can't have a player control foul during an interrupted dribble (or indeed any time when no player is in control of the ball, excepting an airborne shooter).

Which is not to say that I agree with it. It should still be a team control foul even without player control. So I guess I disagree with both proposals.

OKay, I see

These are rules changes that people have submitted to the committee? Not rules that have come OUT from the committee? I mean, the committee has not yet signed off on these? Okay, I feel better now...

Yes. Apparently these are the proposals that the committee will consider for next season.

And I feel better knowing that some of these are not a done deal. :D