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Originally Posted by Raymond
I never in my career sought out somebody to see if they tucked their jersey. I officiated the games and if I saw untucked jerseys, I would address it when I had an opportunity to. If I had a game where it was a continuous problem, every free throw I administered I would tell everybody to tuck their jerseys. I didn't even look to see if they were tucked in at that point.
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Well stated.
Pretty much exactly I what do.
If I had trouble expressing such above, that's on me because I'm not an elegant wordsmith.
As Raymond stated, free throws are a good time (never during a live ball clock running situation) to address such problems because almost all the players are within hearing distance.
With the exception of some middle school uniform issues (dark jerseys for home teams, non-matching shorts among players, illegal numbers, duplicate numbers), that we've been locally instructed to ignore, I always enforce, warn, or at least broach, but never ignore.
Even the slippery shiny scrimmage type jerseys (difficult to stay tucked in) I sometimes see in my middle school games are broached during the coaches captains meeting to get everyone on the same page (including first consulting with my partner).
In all sincerity, I believe that I can definitively say that I never
totally ignore any fashion issues.
They're either enforced, warned, or at least broached (fat kids are discussed with partner and possibly opposing coach), but never ignored (except for local middle school exceptions as stated by both our local interpreter and game assigner, often discussed in coaches captains meeting).
