Just wondering

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by BktBallRef

Wrong again. Call it a couple of times each way in the first quarter and you've cleaned it up for the rest of the game.

2002-2003 NFHS Points of Emphasis
4. ROUGH PLAY
A. Hands off
• Defenders are not permitted to have hands on the dribbler!
• The measuring up of an opponent (tagging) is hand-checking, is not permitted, and is a FOUL.
• Use of a forearm, regardless of the duration of the contact is a FOUL.
• Hand checking is not incidental contact; it gives a tremendous advantage to the person illegally using their hands.

Funny how I don't see the word "displacement" mentioned.

Again, if you call a touch in my area (remember our clinicians are not teaching the NF "hands off") then you will be officiating Junior High games. Because if you do not allow a player like Dee Brown on that went to Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois and is currently playing for Illinois in the Big Ten a touch when he drove to the basket when he was in HS, you would not be officiting much longer. And around here, to do Class AA ball (Big Schools) you better not be calling the first touch on a strong dribbler. You better consider some displacement whether you like it or not. The NF is not the standard for all things officiating. If it was, then the IHSA would not adopt many of their own mechanics and rules that the NF does not have in that little book. I am sure other states are the same.

Man, I bet your games take all day and your are in the 2 shot bonus in the first quarter. Coaches got to love you.

Peace