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Originally Posted by JRutledge
What you tell them in this case is irrelevant. What you do is more important. Who cares if you tell them what they cannot wear. The still have a choice and they know that.
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This ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by JRutledge
I tell them they have to remove it if they want to play.
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... is a lot better than just telling them that they have to take out the earrings, as some officials, not necessarily JRutledge, will oft do. The second half of JRutledge's statement gives the player a choice that other statements that I have heard, from other officials, i.e., "Take out the earrings", do not.
If a player wants top sit on the bench, dressed in uniform, with earrings, because he knows that he won't play, as the coach's punishment because he failed an algebra test, then he has the right to do that, and I don't believe that we can do anything, by rule, about it.
Nit picking note: According to a long lost (unless Nevadaref can help us out) interpretation, I don't believe that he can warm up, with the earrings in, before the game.