From: bells@infonode.ingr.com (Scott Bell)
Subject: Re: DID YOU OR THE NET TOUCH WHILE BLOCKING?
Summary: Nope 
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:14:44 GMT

u2417@sunc2.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider) writes:

>I'm sure this has happened to anyone who blocks often.  
>You are blocking, and your opponent spikes the ball hard,
>and it hits the top of the net and bounces back at him.
>However, it also happens to have hit *you*, which your
>opponent doesn't realize, and his team has 3 more hits!
>
>I've thought about this recently and decided that when I
>touched the ball in this way, I would not say so until
>after the ball was played (since we have no ref).  Why should
>I give this info to the other team during a play?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    IMHO, I wouldn't say anything if there was a ref there. However, if
 you trust your friends/ they trust you/they provide the equipment, 
 Gatorade, and pizza afterwards, I would definetly tell them! ;)

>
>Then this happened during practice.  The ball bounced off the net
>back to the other team, and I had touched it (just a bit).  One player
>passed it, but someone else was saying "did you touch it" and of course
>I didn't say anything.  The next person just caught the ball
>and said "He didn't touch it."  Then *I* said "Aha!  I did touch
>it, and you should never let a ball go until you are absolutely
>sure it is dead." (or something like this).  Of course, this person
>that caught the ball is a friend of mine with an attitude and
>he got really pissed at me when this happens, which is typical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of him since he hates to be wrong.
>
>I'm just wondering...how does anyone else feel about this?

    Tell him to ref then. That will calm him down enough to realize what's
   going on. Plus then you're obligated to yell at HIM! ;) ;)

    I assume that your hands are above the top of the net. If this is
   the case, yes, you have blocked it. However, if the ball never broke 
   the plane of the net or "most" of your hand(s) were behind the net, the
   ball never made it over. Sideout. 

    Alot of line judges/refs I've played under don't notice anything has
   gone wrong in a situation like this. Shame, shame. 

    Does this sound reasonable/correct?

>
>
>-- 
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>!! Mike Schneider schneid@jerry.stat.uiuc.edu !!
>!! University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign !!
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get Vertical,
Scott
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