Rule change time again

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by tmp44

For those of you who want to get rid of the jumpball to start overtime...why? Is it just because that's not how we start every other quarter?

HUH? Did they change the rule on how to start the first quarter while I was taking one of my daily naps?

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

HUH? Did they change the rule on how to start the first quarter while I was taking one of my daily naps?

Next year, starting the game with a coin toss will be proposed. But who will we toss the coin toward?

[jalons]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Next year, starting the game with a coin toss will be proposed. But who will we toss the coin toward?

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

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by jalons

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

Used to? They've changed?

[jalons]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Used to? They've changed?

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.

[Nevadaref]

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

[Texas Aggie]

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.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

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

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.