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Originally posted by SoGARef
Folksref,
I fully agree with what you say and in all cases you describe that is exactly how we handle it.
But in the aforementioned scenario, what would you do if you knew that a curfew exists that calls for the stoppage of a game when the curfew hour is reached and the game administration refuses to stop the game. Do you continue to officiate the game and become complicit in the violation of the state regulation or do you and your crew walk off the field?
Herein lies my quandray.
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You are correct. You need a directive from the state. And, once you get it, if the local game administration doesn't abide by it, then I'd walk off the field. I'd then inform the state as to what happened. If you had a game that looked like it might run over the time, I'd get both coaches together and see if they would agree to shorten quarters. I'd do this by half-time. This is allowable according to our current rule book.
I'd feel pretty safe in enforcing a state rule, rather than go by what the locals want.