Captain

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

It appears that Raymond is differentiating between those team members that are voted, or appointed, as team captains (those that show up at the pregame meeting), and those who are considered to be captains by virtue of the NFHS rule because they are one of the five players from a team on the floor at one time. Practical versus literal. I get it. I didn't, but I do now.

Which answers the original question that started this thread. There is no rulebook reference to a speaking captain, so it's irrelevant if the team member who speaks in the captain's meeting is a starter. And we have a rule book definition that tells us a captain is by default one of the five players on the court.

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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Which answers the original question that started this thread. There is no rulebook reference to a speaking captain, so it's irrelevant if the team member who speaks in the captain's meeting is a starter. And we have a rule book definition that tells us a captain is by default one of the five players on the court.

Agree with you 100% (and have agreed with you throughout this thread, though the literal meaning of 3-1-1 was a slight surprise for me).

No "speaking" captains for me, and no "speaking" captains for the NFHS.

So tell Indianaref, not me.

I've actually had a game where the referee asked for a "speaking" captain, didn't ask if he was starting, and remembered his number. Not finding him on the court for the jump ball, he actually took a step, or two, toward the bench, and asked him if he was ready to start the game. I can't remember if he started his pregame meeting with, "It's the black line all the way around".