NCAA Rules Book Online
 

Here is the link for the Basketball Rule book:

http://www.ncaapublications.com/Uplo...e85513c6e6.pdf

I am rather amazed that the NFHS does not make their rulebooks available online.

I mean really - get with the new century already.

Yeah, that would be a good thing. I usually print out the PDF in take it to Office Max and let them bind it.

Still waiting. :D

They are on line. You have to "join" at the NFHS site to see them.

Still silly. Make them publicly available, like the NCAA does.The rules are not a secret are they?

The NFHS receives a greater percentage of their income from books than does the NCAA.

That is probably the understatement of the week. I'd bet the NCAA's revenue from books is effectively zero compared to their total revenue where the NFHS revenue is largely from the books.

That said, I think they should go to a biannual schedule for all books and just raise the price a $1-2 dollars (or whatever it would take to make of for the lost profit for a year's worth of books...which would be far less than the total cost of the book since they'd save on a year's worth of production and distribution costs).

That seems like a safe bet, since the NCAA publishes their rules online for free :P

I get that the NFHS uses the sale of books as an income stream, I just think it is a pretty poor way to go about making money, since it relies on a grossly outdated informational model that does not apply in today's world, and *should not* apply when it comes to something like making information about the rules as widely available as possible.

It is not about "making money". It is about funding thier operations. They're basically a non-profit organization don't really have a product to sell aside from the rules and training materials. If you can come up with another way that they can get people to give them money for the rules without printing them, I'm sure they'd be glad to listen.

For?

The NCAA is supposed to be non-profit, just like the NFHS. So are the various other sports organizations, for example, ASA (softball), USSSA (softball). This whole "rule book online" discussion happens in softball as well, since ASA won't publish theirs online, but USSSA has their book online. What I've come to find (being in the education profession) is more of a concern about copyrighting than profiteering. The original copyright owner is afraid that once someone prints the ENTIRE book, they might be tempted to share copies of the book instead of just parts of it.

I don't know about anyone else, but I WANT a book - not just a PDF file on my computer. No way am I taking a laptop into the schools with me - half the time the room they put us in doesn't even lock. Those nice little rule books fit right in my bag, and no self-respecting juvenile delinquent is going to steal a rule book from a locker room.

So life should be free?

"Information wants to be free."