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Old Sat Mar 07, 2015, 05:43pm
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Originally Posted by Moosie74 View Post
What's not legal? If the head coach is not physically at the game site at the start time you can't require them to attend the conference.

By rule you are correct that if the assistant attends the pre-game meeting they are de facto head coach for that day but I have never seen a game where they didn't return that responsibility back to the rostered head coach and the umpires not allow that.
This following quote from you is illegal in NFHS. A captain cannot do that; it must be an adult head coach that is employed by the school to legally "in loco parentis".

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Originally Posted by Moosie74 View Post
It eliminates having a captain from answering the questions and taking the responsibility.
If there isn't an adult head coach (or acting head coach) available, you may not play the game until there is. In many states, that would be a forfeit.
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