[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by JugglingReferee

Except that it was admitted that the official didn't see the player go down. Why limit to 8th grade girls? If anybody goes down and their head slams on the floor and they just lay there - stop the game.

Please tell me though, what happened that is "pretty serious"? Oh that's right - nobody with authority to legally stop the game knows, so they let the play go. If as you say, something serious did happen, and the officials did in fact see it, I trust my brethren to make the correct decision to stop the game.

Now, it is a different story with different variables, such a loud and repetitive screams, whimpering (sp?), body shakes, a loud noise (thump), etc.

Snake is right - no free pass.

What are you talking about?

The OP said that HE didn't see what happened since the girl went down in the BC & he was L. But his partner DID blow it dead - you know, the brethren you're so trustful of? And the OP DID show restraint by not T'ing the coaches up after his partner blew it dead.

I had a similar sitch in an 8th grade game. Girl goes down in backcourt, but I'm L and I don't see it. I'm just ahead of midcourt (there's a press on) and see both coach and assistant coach come off the bench THREE FEET ONTO THE FLOOR yelling at my partner. I was ready to blow and walk over and say, "That's a T for YOU and a T for YOU!" But my partner blew it dead (wrongly, the other team was driving by this point). I let him handle the situation. Girl left in an ambulance with a concussion half an hour later. Assistant keeps glaring at my partner and giving him crap for the no call. At this point, I don't think any T's would have helped anything at all. I shut the assistant up with some friendly advice, and we ended up with a 2 hour overtime game.