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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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.
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A player shall go to or remain on the bench to means that if the Flag T was called on bench personnel - they are to remain there and if called on a player - they are to go to the bench. Once on the bench - and the coach feels they need to go to locker room and sends them there it is no longer my responsibility IMO unless they create some kind of disturbance along the way that warrants my attention.