Disconcerting action.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
It is my opinion that disconcerting action by bench personal is a unsportsmanlike technical foul and not a violation but that is another thread alltogether..

Disconcertion was a POE in last year's rule book,if anybody's still got it(#2 on p68).The POE read "if(disconcertion)is persistent or deemed unsporting,the team/player may be penalized with a technical foul". If I remember right,there was an interpretation on the NFHS website that explained that disconcertion applied to all opponents,including bench personnel as defined in R4-34-2.The play said that you could call a T on somebody on the bench,in addition to a disconcertion violation,if you felt that their disconcertion was also unsportsmanlike.It further explained that if you couldn't identify the person on the bench who was disconcerting in an unsporting manner,you charged the opponents with a team T. This play was taken down at the start of the current season,but is still valid.

This was also a major argument in a thread about a year and a half ago on the other website.Someone(and I think it was MTD SR hisself)e-mailed someone on the FED rules committee and got an interpretation that disconcertion did indeed apply to the bench.Gone but not forgotten.