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Originally Posted by just another ref
4-34-4: A team member is a member of bench personnel who is in uniform and is eligible to become a player.
If these guys are in uniform and participating in warmups with the team, they sound like team members to me.
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You posted all the correct rules, but you ignored the plain language and missed the critical part. There are three elements to a team member and a player must meet all three.
1. Bench personnel. This includes both players and non-players.
2. In uniform. (This one is easy.)
3. Eligible to become a player.
The third one is the key to this. Officials do not determine eligibility. A senior is not eligible to play on the JV team. A freshman that has played four quarters that day may not be eligible to play in any more games. (My state says 4 quarters a day; I know others allow 5 quarters.)
Once we learn the player is not eligible (because the coach tells us that), we cannot assess the technical foul.