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Old Sat Mar 01, 2014, 01:56pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Tradition (Fiddler On The Roof) ...

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef View Post
I'm not asking about "authorized reasons", I'm asking about the time frames teams are allowed to leave the bench area.
You have to ask about "authorized reasons", there's no way around it, because that's the only rule reference, that I can find, that allows teams to leave the bench area.

So the question, essentially, becomes, what are these authorized reasons, and I cannot find any rule reference to a single authorized reason, not even the halftime intermission. But we let them leave anyway. Why?

The scene opens in a small, rural, high school gymnasium, poorly lighted, half filled with spectators. The halftime buzzer sounds. Coach, wearing a plaid sports jacket, holding a rolled up game program: "Hey Mr. BillyMac. Does my team have your permission to leave the bench area and go to the locker room for our halftime intermission meeting?" BillyMac: "Just let me look through my handy, pocket sized, rulebook coach. I don't see a list of authorized reasons, nor do I see such a list in my handy, pocket sized, casebook, so, no, you can't leave".

Yeah? Like that's really going to happen, because if it did, I would never work another game for the rest of my life.

Now let's twist the situation around for one of the other two intermissions. Now it becomes a more realistic scene, maybe with an Academy Award winning performance by BillyMac. I could just see it now: "I'd like to thank all the little people, like the point guards, who made this possible".
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