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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

With all due respect to Jeff's source and his source's personal opinion on the matter, I'm just not buying the "if it ain't still in the book, it ain't still in force" argument. If somebody with authority to change a case or interp hasn't done so, I am not going to just assume it isn't still in force just because it silently disappeared from view. The only way for that to work is for every official to perform a complete, side-by-side comparison of every publication and press release from the NFHS every year to determine what is no longer there. If the NFHS' policy truly is that old cases and inters are "out of sight, out of force" they would have said so. Very publicly.

You do not have to buy it. As Tony said the casebook rarely changes. Plays stay in the book for years and practically never change because the rules surrounding them have not changed. Remember we are only talking about 3 to 4 rules changes and some minor editorial changes each year. The types of things that change are often so minor in basketball that the interpretations that need to be changed might affect one play. Now when it comes to a sport like football and they change a penalty enforcement rule, many plays are affected and the NF Football Committee has had to strike out plays in the casebook because they were in current casebooks that did not reflect the current rules changes.

And you are also assuming that the NF is different than any other bureaucracy to inform the people that use their information. So to say they would do something publicly is a stretch when we cannot get other national organizations or governmental agencies to give public information.

I will say this again, this was not my opinion. I was told this by a person that sat on the actual NF committee in a sport when an old ruling was advocated on this board and I asked for clarification to how it applies today. And I specifically asked about why a ruling was not in the current casebook and his answer was, "The NF purposely takes out or adds plays to the casebook."

At the end of the day, you have to answer to your higher ups. I think it is silly to expect everyone is going to know there was a book 20 years ago that says to do something when the NF seems to be aware of what they took out or put in their current books. And often rulings that are on their website end up in the casebook.

Peace