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Everyone appears to be creating a situation that does not, vfrom Mick's description, appear to have happened. We have a JV game, which is all training activity in my book anyway. These games are to prepare kids, and playing 5 on 4 does nothing for the home team. so home coach agrees to let the player stay in.
If the player decides it is license to foul without repercussions, the 6th foul can be the last. Nobody said you were stuck with this player for the rest of the game, regardless of what happens next.
the idea is to give these kids a good contest, and if both coaches agree to this, I fail to see a major problem ethically. Liability, I guess could come into play if this player goes and hammers somebody and severely injures that player. but that can happen at any time. Having seen Micks posts for several years now, I doubt he would have agreed if the game were looking like one where a terrible situation was fixing to develop. Actually, the home coach would not want that player on the floor if he thought it looked like a potentially bad situtation.
I take my teams to warm-up tournaments where fouls don't count, with certified officials reffing the games. I watched my players in several "5 quarter" JV scrimmages where fouls didn't count. These were run according to NF rules with the exception of the extra quarter and nobody fouling out. Were the refs at risk for reffing these games? If not, I fail to see a real risk to the ref for allowing this player to continue with the agreement of both coaches.
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