Asking for help! Topics for rules review meeting

[jdw3018]

So, I'm facilitating our local rules meeting tomorrow night. We've hit Rule 4 pretty decently and have gone over the new case plays for this year.

Any suggestions on a good topic/topics to discuss for an hour? What are the best formats any of you have had for a rules review? I'd love to make it interactive and fun, so any suggestions on what you've seen work is much appreciated.

The purpose of the meeting is two-fold. One is to prepare for the test (we don't use the NFHS test here, we use a not-so-fun home-made version. The other is to prepare for the season, obviously. Mostly, those overlap, though there are always a few "this is how the rule is written, this is how we enforce it here" discussions.

So, any help would be welcome. Thanks in advance!

[Mark Padgett]

Try this one. A1 (a girl) is standing with both feet in the frontcourt, holding the ball. A rubber band falls out of her hair into the backcourt. Is this a violation?

[amusedofficial]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Try this one. A1 (a girl) is standing with both feet in the frontcourt, holding the ball. A rubber band falls out of her hair into the backcourt. Is this a violation?

What color is the rubber band?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

What color is the rubber band?

It's her HS colors, puce and chartreuse.

[chartrusepengui]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

It's her HS colors, puce and chartreuse.

Hey - quit pickin on chartreuse ....... no, wait - it's ok - I don't spell it that way.

[Bad Zebra]

If you have a lot of newbies in the audience...you might want to include live ball/dead ball. Had our rules meeting this week and they seemed to struggle with the concept.

[mbyron]

Rules:
Kinds of foul + penalty
Kinds of violation + penalty
correctable errors
substitution rules

Mechanics:
block/charge
primary coverage areas
rotations + switches
starting the game

That should be enough for a meeting or two.

[Vinski]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

I'd love to make it interactive and fun, so any suggestions on what you've seen work is much appreciated.

How about block/charge scenarios. If you want it interactive, have people run into each other under different conditions and the observers decide if it was a block or a change. Sounds like a great time to me (as long as I’m not one of the guys being run into ).

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by Vinski

How about block/charge scenarios. If you want it interactive, have people run into each other under different conditions and the observers decide if it was a block or a change. Sounds like a great time to me (as long as I’m not one of the guys being run into ).

Sounds like fun...I will definitely incorporate this tonight. Thanks!

[Indianaref]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

I'd love to make it interactive and fun, so any suggestions on what you've seen work is much appreciated.

Interactive? How about the fight rule.

[mbyron]

Oooh, I forgot one.

You could devote an entire session to the traveling rule.

Of course, it might be pointless, since everybody knows you get 2 steps.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Oooh, I forgot one.

You could devote an entire session to the traveling rule.

Of course, it might be pointless, since everybody knows you get 2 steps.

Not sure we have time for it all, but I think I'm going to go with a review of legal and illegal contact, and if we have time we'll review traveling as well.

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys!