Just thinking...

[SNIPERBBB]

You have to have player control to have a BC violation.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

You have to have player control to have a BC violation.

So when A1, dribbling in the frontcourt, picks up his dribble in his frontcourt, holds the ball in his frontcourt, and then throws an errant pass to A2, who is standing with both feet in his backcourt, and then the ball hits A2 in the knee, and bounces away, you're not calling backcourt because A2 doesn't have player control?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

So when A1, dribbling in the frontcourt, picks up his dribble in his frontcourt, holds the ball in his frontcourt, and then throws an errant pass to A2, who is standing with both feet in his backcourt, and then the ball hits A2 in the knee, and bounces away, you're not calling backcourt because A2 doesn't have player control?

Yes. That's exactly what he meant. [/sarcasm]

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

You have to have player control to have a BC violation.

What you really meant is that before a BC violation is possible, there must have been player control inbounds.

[SNIPERBBB]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

What you really meant is that before a BC violation is possible, there must have been player control inbounds.

Correct.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

What you really meant is that before a BC violation is possible, there must have been player control inbounds.

Yep. And, didn't the rule used to be that player control, by definition, was inbounds?

I wish the NFHS (and NCAA for that matter) would include the deletions in the rules book -- with a strikeout -- to make it more clear what has changed.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Yep. And, didn't the rule used to be that player control, by definition, was inbounds?

I wish the NFHS (and NCAA for that matter) would include the deletions in the rules book -- with a strikeout -- to make it more clear what has changed.

Yes, but the wording of the backcourt rule as changed to reflect the team control foul on a throwin situation, it implies that their must be player control in the backcourt to have a violation when all that is required is that there be team control inbounds...which starts when a player has control (inbounds) but continues even when no player has control.