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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
The rules state that a team may not play short if it has eligible players on the bench. By definition an eligible player is a player is one who is not disqualified. The player who went out is not a disqualified player and since the rules state that a team may not play short the player must come back into the game to replace the injured player even though no time has run off the clock.
MTD, Sr.
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Mark
I gave you the definition of Player and Team Member and the shorthanded rule in my first post. The "sub" is not eligible based on the definitions given and the sub rule quoted. But, you will obviously not be convinced of that and you won't convince me so we can agree to disagree.
Meant to add this to this reply:
Edited to add the following:
After finally getting home and looking over the HS rule book, Mark you still don't have an argument to make. The HS rules do not "define" substitute the way that NCAA does. However under 3-1-1 Note: A team must begin the game with five players,
but if it has no substitutes to replace disqualified or
injured players, it must continue with fewer than five...
Rule 3-3-4: A player who has been replaced, or directed to leave the game
shall not re-enter before the next opportunity to substitute
after the clock has been properly started following his/her replacement.
Now the only argument I see you having is whether this "once-in-a-lifetime" situation would fall under this rule, or the NCAA rule for that matter, or you might could argue that the famous 2-3 could, and I stress COULD, apply here.