[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by deecee

once again i disagree -- your caseplay speaks to the official HAVING to request the player to leave the playing area -- NOT the coach

Read the fourth (4th) sentence in the Casebook Play RULING. It says and I quote: "A disqualified team member or student bench personnel shall go to or remain on the bench." That means just what it says. It does not say that the player shall go where the coach wants the player to go. Having said, if the Head Coach wants the player in the lockerroom with adult supervision, then by all means the officials should allow it. The intent of the rule is to insure that the player or student bench personnel who are disqualified are under adult supervisioin at all times. If the disqualified non-adult participant is not going to be supervised by an adult while in the lockerroom then the disqualified non-adult participant must stay on the team bench.

I just don't understand why officials think that when a Head Coach says: "Trust me." That officials will trust him. Trusting a coach is a sure way for an official and his family to end up living in a house trailer for the next 20 or 30 years.

MTD, Sr.