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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Lets tweak Play 1 a bit. Change VAR to A-12. The R goes to the Table to find report the TF and A-HC tells you that A-12's name is't going to be in the Scorebook tongiht because he is not going to play because he has a strained saluting finger in his shooting hand. By your logic you do not have a TF because A-12 is not a player just like the VAR player is not a player. BUT then, when the R checks the Scorebook at the ten-minute, guess what? A-HC has decided to put A-12's name in the Scorebook after all just in case he needed an extra body to finish out the game. Are you going to go back and tell A-HC that you are know going to charge A-12 with a TF for dunking after telling A-HC that you weren't.
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A12 is bench personnel if he's gonna sit on the bench. Sez so right in rule 4-34-2. That means that the head coach is responsible for him, as per rule 10-4. If A12 sits on the bench, then A12 gets a "T" and his head coach gets an indirect "T". It ain't rocket science.
Iow, this situation is covered under the rules also. Varsity player who don't sit on the bench are not bench personnel; they are not directly affiliated with with the JV team. That's why they aren't covered under the same rules as A12. The only rule that you could possibly apply to varsity players or anyone other than the JV team that I'm aware of is rule 2-8, and to apply that you'd have to call the varsity player a "follower" or "spectator".