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I agree with the common sense approach, but let's turn the tables a bit.
You are on court 477 of this AAU tourney (in referee Siberia) and these incidents happens on court 5. By the time you and your partner get your game over and get to court 5 you have about enough time to hit the head and grab a drink of warm fountain water. You don't find out until half time that the player was seeing starz before the game. He plays the whole first half, w/o problems, do you sit him then because he was knocked out before the game? Since you didn't witness it, can you rule on it?
The reason I bring this up is, we all know the common sense thing is to sit the kid. But, what if the incident happens in a morning game. The same team has an evening game (This happens frequently in mid-season tourney's and during state tourney time when games are played on Saturday) with a new set of officials. 1st, how are you going to know what happened in the morning (of course the opposing howler monkey would probably alert us to it if the player was good), and 2nd, I don't think, by rule, we can keep a kid out of a different game, especially if we did not witness the incident. Since it is a new game. we really would have to eject the kid to prevent him from coming in to play. Time is really kind of tricky in these situations. What would the difference be if the kid got knocked out during a 10:00AM game and tried to play in a 8:00 PM game vs if that time scenario was switched. If the game was 14 hours later, and on the next day most people would let him play, but if it was 10 hours later on the same day we wouldn't? What is 4 hours going to do?
Again, I don't disagree that the kid should sit. This isn't prefessional ball and injury just isn't worth it, but if the coach were to call you on it, you wouldn't have a rule to stand on.
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