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Originally Posted by grunewar
One of the biggest problems I’ve had as a ref in the leagues is teams not honoring the “you must play a quarter” or “five straight minutes” rule. Refs are specifically instructed not to get involved with these admin rules (other than to warn) as we have other issues to concern ourselves with – we instruct the offended coach to take it up with the league.
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There is a 6th grade coach in our CYO Division who feels the playing time rule (players must appear in at least 2 quarters, but no more than 3 in a regulation game) doesn't apply. The first time we played them, he claimed he couldn't follow it because he only had 8 players. Of course I have an index card showing how it can be done with as little as 7 players.
But this is one of my peeves, too. If the shoe was on the other foot, these same teams would be asking us why we were ignoring the rules.
{/soapbox}