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Old Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:13pm
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BillyMac and Zoochy:

Both of you have stated in this thread and another one that the NFHS has made a statement concerning iPad and like devices on the bench. I have tried to find it but haven't found it so far. Billy, if you can find it, please email me a copy or a link to it, and Zoochy, just send me a PM requesting my email address. As you well know, the NFHS Basketball Rules Committee Chairman is an OhioHSAA Assistant Commissioner, and on Friday, January 27, 2012, the OhioHSAA came out with a statement that may have contradicted the NFHS Statement. I would like to compare the two statements and keep the group posted. Thanks.

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Old Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:52pm
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BillyMac and Zoochy: Both of you have stated in this thread and another one that the NFHS has made a statement concerning iPad and like devices on the bench. I have tried to find it but haven't found it so far.
The only thing I've heard is from our local IAABO board interpreter, who told us back in December that iPads, and other tablet computers, are not allowed on the bench. Period. All I know is that this is a local IAABO ruling. I don't know if it came from the state board, or from IAABO international?

Any reference that I gave in this thread about the NFHS ruling, I got from this thread, and was just copying it.

Sorry.

Also, I was with my local interpreter when he was approached by an athletic director that had a tablet computer with a real cool program. It is an "electronic scorebook", names, points, fouls, team fouls, timeouts, the whole nine yards. And it's somehow connected, by WiFi "magic" to the scoreboard on the wall. "Mark" a basket for Johnny Smith in the "electronic scorebook" and the two points show up on the scoreboard on the wall. And at the end of the game, the athletic director can instantly email the results of the game, with a full box score, to the local newspaper. He also showed us the "electronic whiteboard" by which a coach can diagram plays on the tablet.

Amazing.

The NFHS has got to respond to the fact that this is the 21st century, the Digital Age.
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Old Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:35pm
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The only thing I've heard is from our local IAABO board interpreter, who told us back in December that iPads, and other tablet computers, are not allowed on the bench. Period. All I know is that this is a local IAABO ruling. I don't know if it came from the state board, or from IAABO international?
I have tried to find such a ruling from IAABO and cannot locate one. Indeed, the official IAABO position is in the current issue of the Sportorials newsletter, where Peter Webb, the coordinator of interpreters said this:

Electric Equipment Use On The Team Bench - As per 10.1.3,
such equipment can be used for only recording statistics. A state
association may over ride this rule and rule some equipment legal
or restrict all such equipment from bench use.

Someone else posted here a while back that the MIAA (the H.S. governing authority in Mass.) was planning a ban. It is not. I have an email from the MIAA which says iPads are legal for statistics only -- exactly as the rule allows.
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The only thing I've heard is from our local IAABO board interpreter, who told us back in December that iPads, and other tablet computers, are not allowed on the bench. Period. All I know is that this is a local IAABO ruling.
Interesting. Our local IAABO interpreter said that they're legal, provided that they're used for statistical purposes, and not video. I haven't seen one yet, quite frankly.
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Interesting. Our local IAABO interpreter said that they're legal, provided that they're used for statistical purposes, and not video. I haven't seen one yet, quite frankly.
IAABO has said that they're not to be used.

I don't think your local IAABO interp can over-interp Tom's ruling.
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Two observations....

1) Regardless of whether they're allowed on the bench, several school that I've been to have notices on locker rooms that cell phones with cameras, ipads etc (or some combination of the above) are not allowed in said locker room. But like anything else I wonder how it well its enforced/paid attention to before, halftime of, and after games for those programs that use them on the bench during the game (or any other time for that matter).

2) Can you imagine explaining to wife/gf/so/boss/yourself why you need to replace a $499 ipad after it got slammed onto a chair when a $10 clipboard can do the same thing? Maybe its a good thing after all and make them think twice about throwing a tantrum.
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Old Wed Feb 01, 2012, 11:36am
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IAABO has said that they're not to be used.

I don't think your local IAABO interp can over-interp Tom's ruling.
IAABO has said no such thing. This is the only "official" position that IAABO has taken (from the current issue of the Sportorials newsletter):

Electric Equipment Use On The Team Bench - As per 10.1.3,
such equipment can be used for only recording statistics. A state
association may over ride this rule and rule some equipment legal
or restrict all such equipment from bench use.
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Electric Equipment Use On The Team Bench - As per 10.1.3,
such equipment can be used for only recording statistics. A state
association may over ride this rule and rule some equipment legal
or restrict all such equipment from bench use.
There it is, then. Again, I haven't seen any such equipment yet, but we all have our local/state rulings to follow.
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There it is, then. Again, I haven't seen any such equipment yet, but we all have our local/state rulings to follow.
I've seen it several times already. With the new guidance out this yr, I expect it to become more and more prevalent - and I don't expect any issues with the video portion which remains prohibited.
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Interesting. Our local IAABO interpreter said that they're legal, provided that they're used for statistical purposes, and not video. I haven't seen one yet, quite frankly.
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IAABO has said that they're not to be used.

I don't think your local IAABO interp can over-interp Tom's ruling.
Yep, Tom Lopes' email was pretty clear.
Colorado has actually gone a step further and disallowed any electronic divices on the bench because there's no way to determine whether they're being used for statistical purposes.
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