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[QUOTE="BillSU, post: 2854572, member: 6809"]
Analogy: “Taking a charge”

The entire situation of undercutting, blocking and charging is like not having a gate and lights at a railroad crossing.

A school bus taking children home from school is stuck at the crossing, front wheels on one side of the tracks and rears on the other and within sight a train is just down the tracks moving quickly.

The train, which cannot stop on a dime, plows through the middle of the bus injuring or killing school kids.

Undercutting and taking a charge is inherently dangerous and unless someone eliminates the rule someone, someday, is going to go up for a dunk or layup get his legs taken out land on his head or neck and be paralyzed.

Taking a charge – the offensive player goes in for a layup full speed and the defensive player knowing he's got this takes a knee in the face and ends up with a concussion or fractured skull.

Maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this but I don't think so.

Sometimes an incident like this has to happen before anything is done about it and the consequences are very serious.
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