6th Foul, Then Technical Foul Question

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

BTW can someone cite a rule that says to award the opponent the FIRST free throw when a team commits a common foul after already having six team fouls in a half?

I believe that there is a serious oversight in the rules here.

My question has nothing at all to do with the OP. Although the situation in the OP is what got me thinking about it. It is a totally separate and definitely serious question. I believe that the NFHS rules writers screwed up MASSIVELY!!!

Look at how "bonus free throw" is defined in 4-8-1. The rule clearly says that it is the SECOND free throw awarded, IF THE FIRST free throw is successful. So what do we call that FIRST free throw? (The PENALTY, perhaps.) And what rule tells us to award it? I don't see one in the book.

It seems to me that there was an oversight in defining the bonus this way. The penalty section following 10-6 says to award the bonus free throw, if the first one is successful on the teams 7th, 8th, and 9th team fouls, yet no where in that penalty section is the official instructed BY RULE to award that FIRST free throw!

We need another sentence in #2 stating to award one free throw for team fouls 7, 8, and 9. It's just not there.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

It seems to me that there was an oversight in defining the bonus this way.

Was it correctly in the rules at one time, and then, as a result of an error in editing, got accidentally deleted, until you spotted the "error"? Isn't that what happened to the "line up" rule? It was accidentally edited out and then put back.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Was it correctly in the rules at one time, and then, as a result of an error in editing, got accidentally deleted, until you spotted the "error"? Isn't that what happened to the "line up" rule? It was accidentally edited out and then put back.

I doubt that anything was accidentally deleted. I expect that "bonus" used to be defined as 1 + 1 or 2 (depending on the team fouls). Then some genius realized that, in 1 + 1, only the second FT is a bonus.

The attempt to fix the rule, which wasn't really broken, broke it.