How strict on touching the net?

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

They made a big point at our rules interp this year(we use NCAA here in NY) of emphasizing the 'let them play on if it is incidental/is away from the play' thing....especially since there were basically zero rule changes this year.

We were making a lot of jokes/comments this year about how the NCAA could literally have phoned their rules committee meeting in - just to make the 'call it a set instead of a game' change!

Both in this game and softball we all wonder sometimes if NCAA/ASA softball/ and a hundred other governing bodies make some of these rule changes simply because they need to do SOMEthing at these committee meetings!