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VAR coming to NCAA. I can’t imagine there is funding for underwater cams, with the exception of NCAA’s?
Also what’s the reason for the changing sides rule? Was that an issue ever?
Others seem reasonable.
It seems like the VAR will be only for goal/no goal rulings to see if ball completely crossed the goal line. Seems like expensive technology to adapt to floating goal cages?
The changing sides after each period, I think is when the low sun is an issue, and you don’t want one team with the sun in the goalie’s eyes the whole first half and then the sun changes by the time the second half starts, and no longer affects the goalie as much, and so now that team does not suffer the same disadvantage.
USAWP needs to allow that rule! 8am games and you cannot switch sides at quarter.
None of these strike me as earth shaking. Having the exclusion for MAM’s be treated slightly differently than oither exclusions seems ticky tack to me. It’s the kind of rule that is hard for the table and officials to administer correctly because it is not called all that often, and requires an immediate check to make sure that excluded player gets treated differently than all other excluded players. What’s gained by having them serve an extra few seconds in the box if there is a turnover or a goal scored? For that matter, why have a separate rule for Minor Acts of Misconduct at all? Just define what it is and make it a regular exclusion.
Also, it’s not clear to me whether we are still issuing warnings for the first act of simulation, followed by exclusions after a warning, or whether we can call the first one we see now. I hope the latter. And ditto on creating a new class of fouls for simulation. It’s not an ordinary foul, not an exclusion foul, and not a penalty foul. Why not just make it an exclusion foul? Or a penalty? And why a restart from behind the half distance line instead of a free throw at the location of the ball? Seems that give the team committing the foul time to get their defense organized rather than risk getting countered (if it’s a turnover) or having a quickie scored if not.
As the Righteous Referee on Water Polo Planet used to rant at regular intervals, this is why the NCAA rule book is 114 pages long while the FINA rules are under 50.
Tonkin of go along with this, hopefully not detract too much, I can’t recall if a thread was started or shared for the new NFHS rules. NFHS - Water Polo Rules
Just seems like we are heading back to different rules for different levels. Not as severe (in my mind) as the early 2000s when HS, club, and college all had different rules.
I guess the question is: should HS and NCAA rules be more closely aligned, should HS and Club be closely more aligned, or should all three?
I can’t wait for coaches to disagree about the “The changing sides after each period” rule.
To your point polo86, I just wish we went with World Aquatics rules throughout . Not only would it make things a lot simpler but it’s yet another thing the national team athletes have to mentally adapt to when playing international games. Little details that make a ton of differences in the end.