College vs FED
 

Pleading ignorance here. Went to a college game (D3) at the college across the street last week and noticed that the girls were hitting the net routinely with no call. Only net violation was when a girl got totally into it with her whole body. What are the rules differences in college and HS in reference to the net.

It's only a fault if you contact the net while playing the ball. Maybe the ball had left the area at the time the player contacted the net?

Or, the contact occurred while the ball was in a completely different area of the court. As was originally posted, the net is only called if the player is in the act of playing the ball or it is flagrant.

MCB,
That's just it. The contact was on kills. And it wasn't due to the movement of the ball carrying the net into a player...nor was it away from the play. It was the attacker hitting the net on kills. Explain this for me, please.

Sorry, ref, I can't. If the player was playing the ball and then contacted the net, it should have been called. No exception. USAV and NCAA are called the same way. Only NFHS still has the rule that "a net is a net is a net."

It happened several times. I just wondered if there was something about college rules that I didn't know?:confused:

For what it's worth...

I see tons of balls in college matches crushed into the tape where teams want me to call an attacker in the net, when it was clearly the ball. Much more often than in high school matches.

Maybe hard to see from your vantage point, but that could have been the case.

Congratulations to Felix on his second IHSA State Finals assignment.