Hiding numbers with tape

[Nevadaref]

I will also point out that compliance with the NFHS rules can be maintained and the team member with the taped jersey can legally play simply by charging a technical foul to the head coach for allowing a player to participate with an illegal jersey. Not a big deal to some coaches and officials, but others consider that penalty a major issue.

[bob jenkins]

Let it go at lower levels; enforce it at Varsity.

[BigT]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Let it go at lower levels; enforce it at Varsity.

Totally agree. Yet if that tape starts to come off I am subbing them out. I dont want tape on the court and I dont want two 13s on the floor. If the opposing coach wants a T then he is right.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I will also point out that compliance with the NFHS rules can be maintained and the team member with the taped jersey can legally play simply by charging a technical foul to the head coach for allowing a player to participate with an illegal jersey.

I was under the impression that while this is the case for an illegal number, i.e. #6 (Bill Russell, my favorite player), it is not the case for identical numbers, which by rule can never be allowed in a game (or a scorebook).

Wait, I now see what Nevadaref is saying, the non-centered taped number, not the identical number, makes the jersey illegal, but is allowed with a direct technical foul and a nice comfortable chair to sit in for the head coach.

Nice citation Nevadaref.

Also, as long as the tape stays on, they're both playing in my high school game without penalty (intent and purpose).

3.2.2 SITUATION B: Three minutes before the game starts, it is discovered: (a) two Team B members have wrong numbers in the scorebook; or (b) two Team B team members are wearing the same number. RULING: In (a), if either or both team member’s number is changed in the scorebook, one technical foul is charged to Team B. If there is no request for change or if neither becomes a player, thus avoiding the change, there is no penalty. In (b), a technical foul is charged to Team B upon discovery of the identical numbers. Only one team member may wear a given number; the other must change to a number not already in use before participating. (10-1-2)

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Not a big deal to some coaches .. but others consider that penalty a major issue.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

... a nice comfortable chair to sit in for the head coach.

"You can take your illegal jersey, your nice comfortable chair, your dry white toast, your four fried chickens, and shove them where the sun don't shine."

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Not a big deal to some coaches ... but others consider that penalty a major issue.

Back when I was working Catholic middle school games, my assigner wanted illegal number rules enforced (all uniform and equipment rules were enforced; he claimed that if he discovered that we didn't enforce these "Fashion Rules" that we wouldn't get paid). Spotted a #6 in pregame layup lines. Told the head coach his player could play at his expense of a direct technical foul and a seatbelt for the game. Instead he spent several minutes in a dusty, dark, dirty physical education storeroom rummaging through boxes looking for a jersey with legal number, eventually finding a jersey that was legal, but was way, way too big for the player.