Tue Feb 07, 2006, 09:12am
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Originally posted by Whistles & Stripes
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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Originally posted by tjones1
Interesting situation I heard about last night. It didn't happen in my game, however in a fellow official that I am good friends with. The most common answer is probably going to check with your state, however I just wanted some input.
Here's the situation: (You are the Referee)
Team A is down 10 points at the half. Coming back onto the floor for warm-ups before the second half, Coach A comes to you and tells you that 4 of their players are breaking out in hives and wants the game suspended.
5-4 describes it fairly well, but what would you do?
In the sitution I just described, lucky the school nurse was in attendance and confirmed to the officials that the players could play and finish the game, therefore they didn't have to make a choice. I guess she thought that some of the opposing players were wearing tanning lotion that was getting on the other players, therefore causing them to break out.
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With all due to school nurses everywhere: I would advise Coach A, that his athletic director should confer with Team B's athletic director immediately about how to proceed. If the school's agree to reschedule the rest of the game, that is their decision, just make sure you don't leave the game site without your check.
If School B does not want to reschedule and Team A does not want to play, do NOT declare a forfeit. This is an weird situation and I would send a report to your StateHSAA and let them make a decision; just make sure you don't leave the game site without your check.
MTD, Sr.
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So Mark, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying it's all about the Benjamins?
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Absolutely NOT!! Having said that, there are far too many of us old geezers on this board that have had experiences with schools that somehow forget to pay the officials under these condidtions because the game might not be completed.
I can tell you of one instance (oh how it pains me because it was a soccer game) where the two schools involved were Christian high schools that were not members of the MichiganHSAA, but they did follow MichiganHSAA rules for playing soccer. When I and my linesmen met with the captains before the game, one of the captians from the visitors was (horror of horrors) a female. The AD from the home school marched out onto the pitch to inform us (the game officials) that she could not play because this was a "boys'" soccer game. I told him that there was nothing in the rules that prevented her from playing. He said that if she played he would pull his team off the field. I asked him if he really meant that. He said yes. I told him that was fine with us, just give us our game fee checks and we would go home. He told us that he wouldn't pay us if there was no game paid. I told him that if he didn't pay us that our soccer officials would pull all of its officials from his school's home games. Guess what, the girl played that night.
End of lesson.
MTD, Sr.
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Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Trumbull Co. (Warren, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Wood Co. (Bowling Green, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Ohio Assn. of Basketball Officials
International Assn. of Approved Bkb. Officials
Ohio High School Athletic Association
Toledo, Ohio
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