Comments on: Rant: Rules I Hate

By: reserved seat

reserved seat — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:24:48 +0000

Another rule that should be instituted is one that would eliminate the hand slapping between foul shots. This also would help speed up the game.

By: Warhawkguy

Warhawkguy — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:46:25 +0000

My bad, Pat, we have them every game and I just assumed other schools did as well.

By: Pat Coleman

Pat Coleman — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:26:18 +0000

Most of Division III doesn’t have media timeouts at all.

By: Warhawkguy

Warhawkguy — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:23:12 +0000

I don’t much like the flying out of bounds time out either but in my mind the real problem is the number of time outs a team gets. In D1 there are media timeouts on the first dead ball after 16, 12, 8 and 4 minutes of each half. That’s eight media timeouts per game. While it isn’t as bad in D3, there are four per game, they still get almost as many media timeouts as team time outs. You don’t have to look any further than this if you wonder why teams can afford to waste one or two to preserve or gain a possession.

We had a game last week in which an opponent literally jumped two feet sideways on a jump shot from the free throw line to draw a foul and the referee rewarded him with free throws. That one drives me batty.

Another rule that I would like to see changed is the offensive player control foul that occurs when a weakside defender sets up directly beneath the basket and then draws the charge from the offensive player. I would like to see a rule similar to the NBA where they have the half circle under the basket and charges can’t occur within it.

By: Old School

Old School — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:52:22 +0000

My friend Swampgoon and I were at the Point/Edgewood game a few weekends ago and that “fly out of bounds” timeout was called by an Edgewood player. The player went horizontally, caught the ball and yelled timeout, without even turning and looking at the ref. He just yelled it. Obviously he couldn’t turn because he was basically doing a swan dive to get to the ball. Needless to say, he paid for it. He basically did a face plant/belly flop right on the ball. That had to hurt, but it was worth watching the guy go through a little pain, to say the least. You could hear the crowd just go, “ooohhh, ouch.”

By: OxyBob

OxyBob — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:02:55 +0000

Unless the player in question is Edwin Moses, he’s hurtling, not hurdling.

By: robooh

robooh — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:58:56 +0000

I don’t know if this is a rule or not, but something I hate is the fact that, apparently, after a ball is knocked out of bounds an official must be given the ball, then give it back to a player on the inbounding team. If I’m not mistaken, in international rules the official simply indicates which team gets possesion of the ball and a player from that team can grab the ball, step out of bounds and pass it inbounds to a teammate. This speeds up the game. I’d like an explanation of the rationale for the way it is currently done in the NCAA.