Softball Player Forced To Cut Hair Beads ...
https://sports.yahoo.com/nc-softball...194036423.html
I don't think that I have a problem with a softball rule change for this situation. I'll let you softball and baseball guys handle that discussion. I just don't think that I would like a similar rule change to trickle across to basketball. I observed many women in NCAA regular season and tournament games with legal, fashionable, probably culturally significant, long braided hair. More so during this past season than in previous years. Allowing beads to be added to hair like this changes the hair into a dangerous weapon. https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.F...=0&w=176&h=154 |
She wasn't forced to cut her hair, some of her companions chose to go that route with some of her braids.
The classic "I've always been allowed to do this" argument doesn't fly with me. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
It always boggles the mind when you have players that have been playing sports most of their lives getting ear rings or choosing hairstyles just before or worse in the middle of the season that they know or should know will be issues with the rules for a game.
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If playing with earrings and the like was so unsafe, why does the NCAA allow it? I would never, ever make a girl choose her beads or not play, not now. Maybe 20 years ago I would've. Today I am aware at how culturally insensitive at best this can look and possibly worse, depending how the story is spun. |
Semantics ...
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Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game "You have to take out your earrings”, is occasionally stated by officials to players in the pregame layup lines who are wearing earrings. It’s only a minor difference in semantics, but it’s probably better, for legal liability reasons, to instead say, "You can't play, or even warm up, wearing jewelry". This puts the decision, to remove the earrings, or not to remove the earrings, on the player, or the coach, and possibly, on the parent, and takes any legal liability off the official’s shoulders. |
Should Of, Could Of, Would Of ...
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Spread The Blame ...
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However, between poor coaching (lack of rules knowledge and/or lack of teaching) and poor officiating (lack of rules knowledge and/or lack of enforcement), this statement may be true in some circumstances, especially in games below the varsity level. Officials, players, and coaches (let's also throw parents in the mix) are all to blame for this, I'm just not sure how to proportionately spread out the blame. |
Not Woke Bad Guy ...
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No beads. No earrings. No long fingernails. I am not unilaterally making any safety decisions not fully backed by somebody above my pay grade. Safety sensitivity trumps culturally insensitivity in my basketball games. Note: I did like the rule change allowing head coverings for religious reasons without state-level approval, so I do have some culturally sensitivity, I'm not a Neanderthal (although 23 And Me tells me that 4% of my DNA is Neanderthal). https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.n...=0&w=300&h=300 |
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My response is often "I didn't work that game". Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
I'm Here Tonight ...
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Pants On Fire ...
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Note: Not to say that I haven't dabbled in lying. Because of lying, my rear end once had a close encounter with a broom handle. |
Lack Of Rules Knowledge ...
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Peace |
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Character Counts ...
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If I were the coach of such a player, I would want to know. As a retired coach, I would probably feel obligated to calmly let his head coach know about the lie, and the player's apparent lack of good character. I would then proceed to work hard to not hold a grudge against that player and treat him fairly for the rest of the game. Just sayin'. |
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