Don't be a jersey plumber?

[JRutledge]

First of all if I am having a player remove, change or take off the jersey in any way, I am telling them explicitly that they need to do so completely out of the view of the court. And I will make emphasize this so that they realize it could be a T if done. The reason being is the other coach could see this and know the rule. I do not want to even have an issue that someone can say we did not enforce. I do this all the time when there is an undershirt or some other situation where they have to take off their jersey. It is just preventative officiating. Because most of the time they are not going to do what you just suggested and I do not want to hear it all game that we passed on a very easy rule.

Peace

[just another ref]

I would agree it's best to give instructions to leave, but, at the end of the day, like anything else, if I didn't see it, it didn't happen.

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

First of all if I am having a player remove, change or take off the jersey in any way, I am telling them explicitly that they need to do so completely out of the view of the court. And I will make emphasize this so that they realize it could be a T if done. The reason being is the other coach could see this and know the rule. I do not want to even have an issue that someone can say we did not enforce. I do this all the time when there is an undershirt or some other situation where they have to take off their jersey. It is just preventive officiating. Because most of the time they are not going to do what you just suggested and I do not want to hear it all game that we passed on a very easy rule.

Peace

Agreed. That's the first thing I'll tell the HC: The player needs to change his jersey out of the view of the court and for the very reasons JRut laid out. If the player starts changing I'll tell them again. After that it's a T. IMO, that's not being a plumber. If I tell you twice not to do something that warrants a T and you do it anyway, that's your headache.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

Agreed. That's the first thing I'll tell the HC: The player needs to change his jersey out of the view of the court and for the very reasons JRut laid out.

Last night, BV, visiting players wearing blue. Player comes out wearing a black undershirt. Instructed to leave and change. Gym had a very unique and odd set of stands, so he ran under the stands right behind his bench, and was back out in ~ 30 seconds. Problem solved.

Side note. Friday, BV. V wearing green. Player has a green cammo headband. R talks to coach. Player goes to the bench and comes up with a white headband in ~ 5 seconds. Yeah, like he hasn't been told this before. Just trying to see what he can get away with tonight......