Violation for Voluntarily Running Out of Bounds

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I do agree. I just think that is not technically how it is interpreted. But then again I could be wrong.

Peace

To me, this rule only applies if a player is completely OOB with both feet. I could be wrong, but that's how the rule reads to me. It's obviously how most of us apply it, though.

[Reffing Rev.]

I was T in 3-whistle during a free throw. B player was talking to his coach near the sideline, after the rebound he ran out of bounds under the basket (in the blue paint out of bounds) and popped back in to receive a long pass for an easy basket. I called the violation, from about 20' from the baseline as soon as he received the pass. Coach says, "you couldn't see that from that far away." I told him both feet were in the blue, and coach said, "not when he caught the ball."

After the game the AD told me that both coaches think I was making up a rule. In the 3 years since I have not had any phone calls for these schools. Prior to that day I did a varsity dh for each and a handful of jv games each. That is what you get when all the coach has to do is push play on an internet video and come back in 45 minutes and click, "yes I watched the video."

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.

I was T in 3-whistle during a free throw. B player was talking to his coach near the sideline, after the rebound he ran out of bounds under the basket (in the blue paint out of bounds) and popped back in to receive a long pass for an easy basket. I called the violation, from about 20' from the baseline as soon as he received the pass. Coach says, "you couldn't see that from that far away." I told him both feet were in the blue, and coach said, "not when he caught the ball."

After the game the AD told me that both coaches think I was making up a rule. In the 3 years since I have not had any phone calls for these schools. Prior to that day I did a varsity dh for each and a handful of jv games each. That is what you get when all the coach has to do is push play on an internet video and come back in 45 minutes and click, "yes I watched the video."

The problem isn't with the coaches lack of rules knowledge or being able to skirt watching a video, it lies with how your area handling officials getting games. Anytime that the coaches have a say in who officiates, the integrity of the game is compromised.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I do agree. I just think that is not technically how it is interpreted. But then again I could be wrong.

Peace

I do remember a conversation at a scrimmage style clinic several years ago... after one of us called that for a player simply stepping on the line coming down from a failed attempt at a rebound (player landed on the line and to catch himself took a step out of bounds before recovering his momentum)... According to the reaming this guy took for that call, inadvertently going OOB during action is NOT what this rule is about. This rule is about players, of their own volition, going out of bounds on purpose for whatever reason (usually, as mentioned above, to avoid a screen or to avoid a 3-second call). Simply stepping on the line is nothing.

[bainsey]

I have this about once per year. Once, in a youth game, I had a double violation.