NFHS Questionnaire

[Adam]

Originally Posted by CoachP

I don't think reaching and over the back are quite the troublemaker fouls.

If you've got kids fouling out on these calls, your issue is with the officiating, not the rules.

[CoachP]

I understand about college. But their teams are generally 12-15 players deep. You can throw goons out there just to use up the foul count and protect your starters at the end of a close game.

In a C size school, (Michigan has A B C and D classes) like us, 20 district kids from being a class D, we have 4 on the bench. Meaning an injury and foul trouble means I have to suit up.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by CoachP

Meaning an injury and foul trouble means I have to suit up.

Didn't you get disqualified? I thought you flunked algebra.

[CoachP]

1981- I fouled out in the second quarter. So did the man I was guarding.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by CoachP

I was also emailed the NFHS questionnaire. It came to me via MSHAA.

5. Permitting a player to have six personal fouls. I answered "yes"

Basketball is the only sport that has a limit. A football player can have 17 holding penalties in a game without disqualification. A hockey player can have 12 tripping penalties without disqualification. What makes basketball different? If we are worried about a foul fest, 1 more is not going to break the bank. In light of the hand check emphasis, we are seeing starter A1 going to the bench with 2 fouls and sitting until the start of the second half because he picked up "2 quick ones".

And then throw in the 2 Twenty minute halves possibility, there is 4 more mintes of game time. (Yes, I believe the NCAA should be 6 also)

Just curious of reasoning behind all of the "no" responses in the sticky note that Billy posted....

I don't like extra chances for players to foul. I'm good with 5, and always will be.