Where are the NFHS rule changes?

[bballref3966]

We're almost two weeks past when the new rules are typically announced, and it seems like we always get the NFHS changes before NCAA. I have to wonder what is taking so long this year. Maybe rewriting rule 9-9?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bballref3966

We're almost two weeks past when the new rules are typically announced, and it seems like we always get the NFHS changes before NCAA. I have to wonder what is taking so long this year.

No changes this year?

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

No changes this year?

That would be a first. In the absence of any substantive changes, they always come up with a fashion police adjustment or two just to prove they convened and adjourned.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

That would be a first. In the absence of any substantive changes, they always come up with a fashion police adjustment or two just to prove they convened and adjourned.

They're going to change the boundary lines from 2" to 6cm. Lines everywhere will need to be repainted to get the extra 1/3 of an inch to be legal!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

They're going to change the boundary lines from 2" to 6cm. Lines everywhere will need to be repainted to get the extra 1/3 of an inch to be legal!

The metric system is the twenty-first century system of measurement in all civilized, industrialized, countries, except one. In terms of measurement, what is the only civilized, industrialized, country that still, officially, uses a much, much, much older system of measurement?

Another reason (with apologies to David Lettermen) why most of the world hates us.

Now, could somebody please help me down off my chemist's soapbox? I'm getting a little dizzy, and didn't realize how high it was.

"I love you, a bushel and a peck!" (Guys And Dolls, 1950)

[JRutledge]

I am actually a little shocked they are not out yet. Usually about this time when we have camp starting and especially the class room parts of those camps, we have the new rules.

I wonder what is the hold up?

Peace

[Rich]

Billy, that was the NFHS rule prior to the penultimate change. Why it wasn't put back in last year is a mystery. Or just sloppiness.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Rich

Billy, that was the NFHS rule prior to the penultimate change. Why it wasn't put back in last year is a mystery. Or just sloppiness.

Or just completely unnecessary.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Or just completely unnecessary.

No, I remember it being a problem -- defenders weren't letting shooters follow through and were backing into and sticking a butt into the shooter. Not enough to call a foul, but certainly violating the spirit of a "free throw."

Wouldn't surprise me to see it be a rule this year.

Once nice thing about doing this a long time is that everything that's old becomes new again...or something like that.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Rich

Once nice thing about doing this a long time is that everything that's old becomes new again...or something like that.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Rich

No, I remember it being a problem -- defenders weren't letting shooters follow through and were backing into and sticking a butt into the shooter. Not enough to call a foul, but certainly violating the spirit of a "free throw."

Nothing that interferes with the follow through after the release affects the shot. By the time they get to the shooter any thing the shooter needs to do should be done. If they're leaving early enough to get there in time to affect the shot, they were already in violation.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Nothing that interferes with the follow through after the release affects the shot.

Physics would support your conclusion 100%. But from a psychological perspective, the shooter being slightly bumped into, and slightly displaced, while in a vulnerable follow through position, could have a detrimental effect on the shooter's accuracy in subsequent shots during the rest of the game. It's called a "free" throw for a reason.

I like the restriction (free throw line for both teams). There must have been a reason why the NFHS had it in the rulebook the last time the NFHS allowed movement on the "release".

Did the NFHS just "forget" to include this (free throw line) restriction, or did they intentionally decide to exclude it from the new (old) rule?

Why did a basketball official training organization, IAABO, unilaterally take on the role of the NFHS and "make up" rules?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Or just completely unnecessary.

Based on what I saw, unnecessary.

Peace

[bballref3966]

Nothing too exciting

http://ohsaa.org/news/201516BasketballRulesRelease.pdf

[JRutledge]

I am trying to figure out other than language was there any changes?

Peace