Ncaa 6.2.3.1

[Scrapper1]

Can someone explain the rationale for the change to this rule? The first improper request of a game is denied, but not penalized further, even if a team delay sanction has already been assessed to that team in that game.

I'm not arguing that it's the rule, I just don't understand why. If the team already has a delay sanction, and then they delay again, why no penalty? I don't get it.

[MCBear]

Scrapper, before this season, when a team had received a team delay warning and subsequently made an improper request, they were sanctioned with a team delay penalty.

I believe that the change was made because the rules committee felt that assessing the first Improper Request with a penalty even though it followed a TDW, was too strong a penalty for such a minor infraction. Thus, the rule was changed so that even though a team may have been given a team delay warning, the first improper request will be treated as just that - an improper request. If they get a second IR in the same game, then it is treated as a team delay.

Ref: NCAA Rules 6.2.3.1, 6.3.2.1