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Originally Posted by Coach Bill
To Mark Dexter: "But when they saw A1 step off the court, they didn't know that there were still five players left. IMO, no T in this case."
Wouldn't you have either:
1. Too many players
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As I said before - this one is only a T if it's discovered while being violated. If a kid runs off the floor,
then you count five on the court, you didn't discover it while there were six on the court. No T.
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2. A player voluntarily leaving the playing court.
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Might be a violation, but leaving the floor for an unauthorized reason is no longer penalized with a technical foul.
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3. A player away from the bench area.
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First off, check your definitions. Other than during intermissions and timeouts, players should generally be off the bench. Second, even if he were a substitute, the T is for leaving a bench area during a fight. Otherwise, we'd have a T whenever the JV players left to dress for the varsity game.
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Aren't these all cases for a 'T'? You had to have something.
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All I have is a "sorry, coach, we didn't see him
when he was out on the court."
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And, the refs admitted they saw him, but "He got off the court quickly, so we let it go". I got the 'T' for unsportingly asking "How can you just ignore the rules like that!!!"
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Now we're talking differently. If they knew six were out on the court, but chose not to call it, you have a semi-legitimate beef. If they truly didn't even think to count until A6 ran off (which is what I assumed in my answers above), then there's nothing they can do. If a T is called, A's coach is going to have the right to go ballistic for ignoring the rules.