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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Yeah......unlike myself and M&M, your resident raconteurs and poet laureates.
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Raconteur? I think I had to replace that on my car once...
Nevada, I'm not insinuating anything by this, other than just to say you are the first person I know to have ever disallowed a ball for use in a game. I would think 99.9% of all schools order "legal" balls, and I've never run across the issue of having to decide their legality. I have had a couple that have been in relatively used condition, and a simple check with the other coach verifies they don't really care - it's round and bounces, so let's play. The IHSA even mandates a specific brand of ball for post-season use (similar to the Fed. accepting Rawlings money for advertising in the rulebook), and I'll have to admit it's not on my radar in the pre-game issues going on at that time. Now, if someone came up to me and asked to use one of the old ABA balls, I might ask for one of the real balls instead. But it seems like it has never come up. That's why I wondered if there are any "illegal" balls out there that someone might legitimately assume is legal? Or is the rule in place so someone just doesn't try to slip in a volleyball?
Ok, back to poetry:
There once was a Chuck from Nantucket,
(Oh, never mind...)