If I were King for a Day, until someone wakes up:
 

The introduction of the FED book would say:

"The game of basketball is to be played by teams of up to 10 players per side. In any scholastic basketball contest, the only people allowed in the playing facility are the players for each team, a scoreboard operator, two scorekeepers, three officials, one school administrator, and one trainer. When a player fouls out or is ejected from the game, he or she is to be escorted from the playing area by an administrator to his or her team's locker room.

All fans are to be seated in a room on the other side of the school where their loud and obnoxious behavior and attitudes can be shared among themselves. Home fans will watch the game on TV from a large room, visiting fans will watch the game on TV from a smaller room, wth a wall between the two sets of fans.

There shall be a limit of one head coach and one assistant coach per team. Coaches will have to sit in the locker rooms, and will only be allowed to communicate with their teams in the locker room before the start of the game and at halftime. They will watch the game on TV in their team's locker room and cannot communicate with either team during play in the game."

Brace yourselves, I know this is rare....

... I agree with Camron. All rules and mechanics the same for NFHS, NCAA, men, women, boys and girls. Including 3-whistle for all HS-JV and above.

Barring that, I think we should go back to jumping every single held ball, and then make girls Fr and below running clock to avoid the 3 hour games.

If we go back to jumping all the time, games will be much, much longer.

My thoughts
- Fix the team control definition so it is a team control foul on an inbounds throw in
- Teams cant call time out after a made basket
- Stop clock after made basket in last minute
- Advance the ball after a time out to mid court in the last two minutes.
- Have shot clock and rop all the five second counts

I'd be a fan of all of these. I might also add I'd take away the ability to substitute after the last made free throw unless it was for a intentional/flagrant foul or a technical foul.

Totally agree. Doubling the number of players per team would make everything a lot better:rolleyes:

So the 9th grade girls B team's games should have the same rules as a D-I men's college game?

NCAA-M (maybe women) should get rid of alternating possession throw ins. Playing 2 halves requires only 2 jump balls opposed to 4 with quarters and with the number of held balls at that level wasting time setting up for a jump ball would not me a major issue.

Aside from the shot clock, the rules aren't all that different. A much bigger difference than the rules is the size and strength of the older players and thus how advantage/disadvantage is applied. So yeah, same rules for freshman girls and D-1 men.

Your point is silly and irrelevant. I simply disagreed with your idea to take away the opening jump ball. Way to go over the top, though. :rolleyes:

Not in every game, but certainly in a big game with lots of people in the stands, there is an excitement at the start of the game when the players are lining up for the opening tip. It's a fair and equal beginning to a game. A coin toss would certainly take all of that excitement away.

As a coach, I don't think it's great at all. It's important to understand the HUGE range between levels of experience and ability in high school ball. If we're to be teaching as coaches, and we have very inexperienced teams (as I do right now), it's incredibly valuable to have those two extra "full time-outs" that come from the quarter breaks.

"Nearest Spot" related to teams basket
 

I would change the definition of the nearest spot by adding language that made it nearest relative to that team's basket. Then when the ball is advanced in the backcourt, but still within the top of the opponent's key, we would take it out on the side and not go back to the baseline. Seems like we may be putting a team at a disadvantage by going backwards.

I honestly don't know what you can teach a teenager to due in two min. However, I would love to know your secret as I have two teenagers in my home:eek:. We need all the help we can get!! I am sure the faculty at your local institutions of higher learning would love this method as well.:)

What do you mean? Time-outs having been a parenting tool for a while now. :p

Not in my house.
Warn once, then whack.

Is that how your wife keeps you in line?