Jump Ball Violation

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I'm not sure what the NFHS wants, the reason for my "dueling rules" statement.

One thing that I do know, is that if the first touch on a jump ball is an illegal touch (catch, or on the way up), and if the clock mistakenly starts, then I'm setting it back to the original time.

So you are going to have the game begin and then a violation involving touching a live ball take place without it being timed? I don't agree with that. In my opinion, game action involving the touching of a live ball inbounds needs to be accounted for in the game time.

Either way true ruling on this eventually comes down, the NFHS needs to issue a clear directive on these timing matters. The committee did that recently with a throw-in being kicked (It said, "don't start the clock."), but it did not address other scenarios in which a violation occurs when the clock is supposed to start, by rule, such as A2 catching the throw-in pass while standing on a boundary line or BI during a throw-in. The NFHS could have addressed these situaions, but didn't. So does that tell us the "no time off" ruling only applies to a kick/fist being the initial touch? A solid argument can be made in support of that, but I can't say definitively that that is what the NFHS desires.

Btw BillyMac and I were part an extensive thread on this topic a couple of seasons ago. Since nothing new has been published by the NFHS there isn't any reason to revisit this now, other than to entertain a few new forum members.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

... the NFHS needs to issue a clear directive on these timing matters. The committee did that recently with a throw-in being kicked (It said, "don't start the clock."), but it did not address other scenarios in which a violation occurs when the clock is supposed to start, by rule, such as A2 catching the throw-in pass while standing on a boundary line or BI during a throw-in. The NFHS could have addressed these situations, but didn't ... nothing new has been published by the NFHS there isn't any reason to revisit this now, other than to entertain a few new forum members.

Agree, and I hope that we entertained the troops. I certainly enjoyed it.