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Originally Posted by jeffpea
for those of you that said she lost conciousness, can i ask what medical school you attended which trained you to make that diagnosis from the chair in front of your computer screen?
while you may play the role of basketball official many evenings during the winter, don't pretend to be a medical professional....if you have a question about it, ask the trainer/medical staff at the game; don't make that judgement on your own.
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I usually agree with everything you say, but the rules say that we can determine a player is unconscious. Now we may not be totally accurate, but all that is required for them to play is a verification of their health and fortunately or unfortunately we are given that responsibility here. And for the record this is a NF policy in other rules like Football and Baseball (I would assume that this is also the case in other NF rulebooks for different sports) that I work that uses the same language and puts officials/umpires in the same responsibility for making this determination. I also think this is so that coaches do not just bring back in players that clearly have been hurt and since being unconscious deals mostly with the brain or overall health of a person, the NF wants a doctor to verify that a player is not let back in too soon. I would honestly hope that a coach was more responsible for this, but somewhere coaches must have put players back in the game when they were not medically cleared or ready to participate.
Peace