[JRutledge]

Do you understand officiating? You must not, because where I officiate, if you do some stupid thing like call a timeout on the basis of safety after you give the ball to a player out of bounds, you might get a call from your assignor. There is nothing that I am aware of that this is even a safety issue. Of course if you see a kid does not have his/her shoe tied, and you see it before the ball becomes live, ask them to tie the shoe, I have no problem with that. But I do recall things about jerseys, numbers sizes and lettering are all in the rulebook. But how many of you here took a ruler and measured if the jerseys were legal or not? Did you last year tell kids to remove socks that had 2 manufacturing logos on them? How many of you stopped a game because there was not clear line where the logo was at in the center court? They are in the rulebook, but common sense usually wins out, because if it did not, you are really asking for trouble? Do what you want, but I believe that that would not be acceptable in the areas I officiate. We had a debate on the use of the resume-play procedure a few weeks ago in association meetings, it is in the rulebook, but do you think there was not a debate on the application and when to apply the rule, I think you can answer that yourself.

Originally posted by Gary Brendemuehl

I thought you said judgement was important? You've recently posted several statements downplaying the importance of rules and promoting the importance of judgement. Now, when you disagree with someone else's judgement, you hide behind a rule!