[just another ref]

Originally Posted by BayStateRef

You keep focusing on "affiliated" and I try to get you to see the phrase "eligible to become a player."

If he is in a legal uniform, he is eligible to become a player. It doesn't matter if he is visiting from jail. If the coach sends him to the x and I hear a buzzer, he will be beckoned into the game. Therefore, as far as I can see, he is eligible.

Affiliated is included in the definition of bench personnel. This definition brings under the umbrella not only players, but trainers, assistant coaches, scorers, kids not dressed because of injury, etc.

Now...what if any of these non-players, not in uniform dunked? Would you say that is must be a T because they are "affiliated." I doubt it.

It is not specified that a dunk by a non-player is a technical foul. It would be up to the official to judge whether this qualified as an unsporting act.

So why do you decide that "eligible to become a player" is none of your business, since the NFHS does not put restrictions on things like seniors playing on the JV team or too many quarters in a single day?

Because it is none of my business. In the first place, I have seen seniors play in a JV game. For small schools, sometimes all players other than the top 6 or 7 on the team dress for the JV game. And are you telling me that in any shape or form if a JV player also participated in the varsity game, you might inquire about the number of quarters he had played for that
day/week/season/whatever? And you mean to say that if one of the stars in the JV had 4 fouls you would.......oops, wrong thread. Never mind.