[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

We're obviously going to disagree, MTD. I've seen nothing in the citation you have that makes me believe a coach cannot send a DQ'd team member - or any other member - to the locker room. If a player loses his contact and they forgot to bring saline solution to the bench, I'm not going to stop him from running to the locker room.

It's the same reason when I was in Kansas I didn't stop a player in a JV game from going to the locker room so he wouldn't be an eligible substitute. I see nothing different here in terms of my responsibility as an official.

You would be wrong in Kansas to allow a team to play shorthanded when they have an eligilble player, because NFHS Rules do not allow the team to play shorthanded; if the player has not been disqualfied and is not injured and has quarters to play, then that player must play. From your previous posts, Kansas has a quarters per day rule like Ohio does. If a player has only played in the first three quarters of the JV game and the VAR Coach doesn't want her to play the fourth quarter of the JV game so that she will have a quarter of eligibility for the VAR game, that is fine, but if that player is one of only five players eligilbe to play in the fourth quarter of the JV game she must play in the JV game. Too bad about the VAR game. Remember what NFHS Rules say about playing shorthanded.

NFHS Rules also state that a disqualified player or a disqualified non-adult bench personel shall stay on the bench unless he is under the supervision of an adult.

MTD, Sr.