Showcase Tourneys

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by packersowner

Seems like every time I watch a showcase tourney, on tv now is the Bass Pro from Springfield, MO, they do not administer the sleeve rule correctly.

Officials are wearing a Missouri patch so I am assuming they are federation officials. Are officials just unwilling to enforce these types of things with higher caliber teams?

I worked such a tournament recently and the tournament directors basically get to dictate such things.

In the case of the one I worked where there were a few national teams sponsored by Nike (wearing Nike apparel), we were basically given the instruction to not enforce that rule. They also had us stay in the locker room until they came to get us at the beginning of the game....to allow a nice pregame dunk show if the teams wanted to do so.

When you're working sponsored events like that, the sponsors basically get to define the rules they want as far as things like that go.