[BillyMac]

I went down to my underground vault, 300 feet down, crossed the moat filled with piranas and snapping turtles, avoided the land mines, a guillotine, knife-throwing wild Indians, the gorilla, and a pit of quicksand, and found my old IAABO Refresher Exams. Here's the second most stupid question ever on an IAABO Refresher Exam, and remember this is an IAABO exam, which is supposed to follow NFHS rules, but I never heard of this rule:

2005-06 IAABO Refresher Exam Question #73: Squad member number 45 misses the bus and is not present at the time the squads list and starting line-up must be submitted for team members. During the pregame warmup the referee counts eleven team members for Team A but while checking the book Team A has twelve members listed. Referee informs the coach that the squad member who is not present may not be placed in the bookeven if he/she will get to the game late. Is the referee correct?
Answer: Yes. 3-2-1, and 4-34-4

As I said in a previous post, despite this answer, on our local board, we're told to count the players warming up, and when the referee checks the book, he, or she, makes sure that there are an equal number of players in the book, or more players in the book than are on the floor. If there are less, he, or she, tries to figure out the problem, before the 10 minute mark.