Blocking/attacking a serve

[MCBear]

If you are a member of the NF Officials Association or the NF Coaches Association, the current Rules Book and Case Book has been (and will be again when the website upgrade is completed) available online. Otherwise, you need to contact NFHS and order a copy of each or contact your local officials' association to see if they have they available for you to purchase.

[steve_s]

I found a copy of the rule book and case book online that did not require any association memberships, fortunately.

http://rules.nfhs.org/ScriptContent/...line/index.cfm

[outathm]

What bothers me the mopst about this rule is we now allow the 'let' serve. If we as rules people are going to allow a serve to barely reach over the net, we should allow the defense to attack that ball as it hangs on top of the tape waiting to fall to one side or the other. I remember, and here I date myself, when the serve was allowed to be blocked and I don't remember the earth stopping on it's axis when it happened onece a week.

[MCBear]

However, we are not on the committee that writes the rules and probably we will not be asked to be on it. So, we have to do what we can, which is enforce the rules as they are currently written and then submit changes to the powers that be so that maybe things will work out the way that we would like.

[outathm]

Jan:

I will enforce the rules as they are written, but I still feel that it is an inequity that places he serving team at a distinct advantage.

I am not one to try to change rules, but that us one that needs to be looked at. I am actually one of those officials that feel as if most of the rule changes effected are just changes for the sake of change, keeping someone, somewhere on a committee or in a job so they can continue to feel important.