NFHS Obstruction Interp

[Big Slick]

Originally Posted by Andy

The PIAA thread reminded me of something that I wanted to check out....

I was working an ASA FP tournament this past weekend and a coach that is also a HS coach asked me if I had seen the new NFHS Obstruction interpretation.....I told him I hadn't and asked him where he saw it.
He said he got an email from NFHS.

His description to me was something about the defensive player cannot be positioned near the "face" or edge of the bag the runner is trying to get to.....

Has anybody (Dave ASA/FED) heard about this...I can't find any reference to it online....

Seems to me that was (local power) someone's (awful) interpretation of obstruction, akin to "you can't block the bag without the ball."

And I can assure you that mindset isn't prevalent in PIAA (not sure why the mention of PIAA reminded your of obstruction).

(not to hijack) and speaking of obstruction:
Episode 10

See the play between 1:45 to 2:10. What you got?