[gordon30307]

Originally posted by Nevadaref

I'm sure that you aren't an attorney, since you have demonstrated your total inability to grasp the concept of jargon. (: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group)

As I've told you before, eligible is being used in a very narrow and specific way in the NFHS Rules Book. It means "hasn't been disqualified." That's all. You just can't understand that.

Have you contacted the NFHS yet as I asked you to?
Until then, you have no basis for your remark.
It is as obtuse as those you have made in some of your other posts. Especially, the one toward rainmaker.

So come on now, accept the challenge and contact the NFHS. Let's see you actually back up something that you say for once.

Rule 3-1 says a game must start with 5 players. If it has no substitutes because of injuries etc. they may play with less than 5. 4-34-4 says a team member is bench personnel who is in uniform and eligible to be a player.

If the coach is disciplining a player or players by suspending them for a game and requiring them to be in uniform on the bench (a not uncommon event I think you would agree) and thus making them ineligible to play as per team or school rule I would not force them to play. I beleive that I can do this as per rule 2-3.

I see nothing in the case book supporting your contention nor mine for that matter. 4-34-4 is basically saying an eligible player must be in uniform. If a Coach tells me that player is ineligible to play that's good enough for me. I'm hanging my hat on 2-3 and supporting the Coach.

There's nothing worse than watching your team lose because you broke a team rule. A lesson well learned and you shouldn't interfer with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!