[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by scrounge

I don't think multi-colored headbands look very good, but I'm not all that concerned with it if they got rid of that rule. But metal clips in the hair, clearly visible? Someone gets hurt in the eye during one of the scrums that always seem to happen in girls' games and there's an attorney asking why the state chose to ignore a national safety-related rule. I don't want that liability personally...

You got that right. I'm not sure what makes hair clips smaller than 2" any less likely to poke someone in the eye than hair clips larger than 2". Ignoring that rule is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

If little kids coached by some volunteer parents can follow these Fashion rules, then why can't high school players with "professional" coaches? Easy answer, it because we have officials who don't think Fashion issues have any part in officiating basketball games and refuse to enforce these guidelines. One Tuesday night the girls get to wear any color headband that they want, until Friday night comes and they all have to wear the same color, which changes again on the next Tuesday night. I blame us.

Yep, it's the us problem either by not knowing the rules or not enforcing them. I rarely work games in NJ but in the three I had during the '10-11 season all three of my partners thought it was okay for a player wearing a white jersey to wear an undershirt that was a school color as opposed to white. To say I was shocked was an understatement. Ultimately, I ended up looking like the bad - or crazy - guy to the coaches in those games when I told them their players couldn't enter/start while wearing those undershirts...and that they had to remove them away from the visual confines of the court.