[mick]

Originally posted by Dakota
If you allow an unanncounced sub coming into an illegal batting order spot (coming to bat) to be treated as BOO, then with an attentive umpire (i.e. an umpire who keeps coaches out of trouble with reported subs), the ONLY illegal sub situation possible for a player coming to bat is a sub who has no re-entries remaining.

If you really wanna look for an illegal Sub, you can look for players missing from the roster and previously ejected players, also.

Otherwise, if she could have legally re-entered at a different batting order position, then you merely have BOO.

I think the NFHS definitions and the penalties in Rule 3 are more clearly written than that. It seems NFHS wants this treated as an illegal player.

The spirit and intent for DP/FLEX is to play more players, I think, and not to create another way to disqualify them. Indeed, a real jerk off a coach could intentionally try a cute move like that, ... but we are there, on the field, to adjudge such an overt act.

If we can keep them in the game, then let's keep them in the game.

mick