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Originally Posted by Freddy
Something I never thought I'd experience happened last night.
7th grade assistant coach, rising to object mildly to a judgement call, is warned to remain seated and reminded that, by rule, only the head coach may use the box. Head coach informs us, "We are following the rule! Only one of us ever gets up at one time, either him or me. We never both stand at the same time. We've been doing that for ten years and no one ever had the rule wrong like you do." 
After this, neither of them stood the entire rest of the game. After the game the head coach said he was afraid to stand lest he get a technical.
Officiating = a never-ending learning opportunity. Always something new.  |
Freddy,
I can already here nevadaref saying, "if those doggone 'Spirit of the Rules' guys would just enforce the rules, Freddy would never have such problems."
In this case, nevadaref would be right. Many of the lower level leagues have a somewhat lax view of the administrative parts of the rules. In such cases, they would be better suited stating that they are following NFHS rules EXCEPT for the listed rules. As long as the league is not a NFHS-sanctioned league (HS or MS following NFHS rules), this would be a better solution.
Without such published exceptions, we should be enforcing the NFHS rules.