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Originally Posted by Eastshire
If I see blood and it isn't cleaned up before I tell the coach to get it cleaned up, the player is sitting unless a TO is used. The HC is unlikely to come unglued because, unlike the other scenario, I have actually enforced the rule rather than allowed his opponent to break the rule. And even if he did, I have the rules with me, rather than against me at the appeal.
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Respectfully disagree here. He's gonna become much more unglued here than in your scenario IMO.
Like I said, I asked an interpreter and an assignor/interpreter both these questions.
The first agreed with what many of you are saying here. That 3-3-7 requires them the coach to use the TO regardless.
The latter said to use common sense and allow the player to play if situation is properly addressed before we are ready to resume.
As I said before, despite what some think, the rules book and case book do not address every single variable of every situation. Sometimes there is some grey area that requires officials to apply the rule intelligently and make a decision.
I believe this is one of those situations and am confident I'm on solid ground should such a situation present itself to me on the court. You and others may disagree. That's fine. Maybe we'll see, maybe we won't.