Comments on New 2006 NCAA rulebook

[eme]

Quite pleased after my one-hour perusal of the new ncaa rulebook for 2006. Lots of things cleared up and cleaned up.

Some questions/observations:

1. 1-21-ar 16 differs from 4-26 ar 113 even though at first glance they seem contradictory. In the former if the goal scorer after the goa lis discovered NOT to have legal equipment... goal is good, time served, etc. The latter rule, I think, makes it clear that if he is driving to the goal and loses some equipment and before you get your whistle to your mouth to kill it...he scores. Then no goal and his team loses the ball.

Page 42 k and page 49 ar 96 make a distinction between touching goal/nets when in act of shooting (no-no) and touching those areas while trying to get a loose ball (okay). I think we burned several pages here on the forum arguing this last season.

Page 46 AR 71 makes it clear that when you PASS the ball back from the attack area to your def. end then it's a 10-second count that ensues upon catching the ball. But I can't find anything that clarifies if the ball is kicked, etc. from the attack area back to that def. end. 10-sec. count ensuing OR 20-sec. count?

Nice job on page 59 cleaning up a rat's nest about the stick check and too deep a pocket, etc.

Page 62 Note 3. I did as they asked and found nothing that added to the ar's just above. Hmmm...The ar's they sent me to were on a different topic.

Page 71. Uniform violations are now distinctly different from equipment violations.

Nice job on page 73 cleaning up stalling and also a bit of a clarification on Simultaneous fouls.

[LaxRef]

Page 46 AR 71 makes it clear that when you PASS the ball back from the attack area to your def. end then it's a 10-second count that ensues upon catching the ball. But I can't find anything that clarifies if the ball is kicked, etc. from the attack area back to that def. end. 10-sec. count ensuing OR 20-sec. count?

I think you mean A.R. 70. But A.R. 71 actually tells us:

A.R. 71. Team A is in their defensive end clearing the ball when A1 drops the ball. The ball is kicked over the center line, ending the 20-second count, then it is kicked back into Team A's defensive end. A2 picks up the ball. RULING: A 20-second count begins when Team A regains possession in their defensive end.

That seems to imply that recovering a loose ball in your defensive end gives you a new 20-count.

[Snake~eyes]

Just ordered an NCAA rulebook.

[goalieskcickay]

I liked the change in the tripping rule, it was slightly flawed before:

SECTION 8. A player may not trip an opponent with any part of his body
or crosse.Tripping is obstructing an opponent at or below the waist with the
crosse, hands, arms, feet or legs—by any positive primary action if the
obstructing player is on his feet or by any positive secondary action if the
obstructing player is not on his feet. When a player legally checks the
crosse of an opponent and the result is to cause the opponent to trip over
his own crosse, no foul is committed. Similarly, if an opponent falls over a
player’s crosse when that player is attempting to scoop a loose ball, no foul
has been committed.

It used to be that the player who was on the recieving end had to fall down for it to be tripping.

In the words of the latest IL, "It was penalizing players athletic enough to stay on their feet after being tripped."

[eme]

LaxRef said:"That seems to imply that recovering a loose ball in your defensive end gives you a new 20-count."

Yes...after the ball has crossed the midline and then returns loose to the def. end...I concur with the implication.

Now that Fed. has adopted this 20-sec. stuff for clears...are we a year behind in that rulebook with all these clarifications that appear in the 2006 ncaa book? Probably...but at least we have a precedent to fall back on (the 2006 ncaa book) when these issues emerge in the Fed. book..

[shrekjr]

Tripping is obstructing an opponent at or below the waist with the
crosse, hands, arms, feet or legs—by any positive primary action if the
obstructing player is on his feet or by any positive secondary action if the
obstructing player is not on his feet.

So would someone like to define positive primary and positive secondary actions?