[CDurham]

Originally Posted by Stat-Man

It's nice to know soeone else has this philosophy.

Thsi past winter, our CYO JV girls (grades 4-6) were hosting a school that is lucky enough to even have enough students to field a team at each level. They only had five players available and partway through the game, one of their players turns an ankle and for whatever reason, there isn't any athletic tape in the gym. Some wanted the game delayed until she could get taped up and continue and I commented that they should just play 4 on 5 until our AD could round up some tape. My partner on the clock disagreed -- she felt it was some how unfair to make a team play shorthanded in this circumstance.

My repsonse was that if our CYO JV league is truly an instructional league (as stated in our league rule handout), this is the perfect time to teach them what happens when a team has no substitues available for an injured/disqualified player.

Agree with that. You would think that would be a no brainer.