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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Not to pile on but......I'm gonna pile on.
We as officials don't get to call the game according to what we think might be fair or not. Like 'em or not, we're supposed to follow the rules. In this situation, you went directly against NFHS rules and made up your very own rules. That's always wrong.
I hope the comments that you got here were more than appreciated. I hope they'll stop you from doing anything like that in the future.
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I would like to state the point a bit differently: you didn't know the rule, so you guessed based on your own personal sense of fairness. I think some of your defensiveness here comes from feeling that folks' comments were personal attacks on you or your sense of fairness.
Nobody's attacking you personally. They're just insisting that you need to follow the rule and not rely on your sense of fairness (and I think you've gotten that now). And that means knowing the rule -- in advance.
You had a chance at half time of your game to review the substitution rules: that would have been the time to get ready for any book weirdness in the second half.
The other thing to do is to keep engaging in rules discussions on the forum. A lot of people reading this thread will remember it and benefit from learning this rule. They should thank you!