Socks Or Sleeves ...

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The arm sleeve is Illegal and the socks are Legal.

MTD, Sr.

If the black & orange have feet attached to them, then they are socks and are legal. If they are cut off at the ankle, then they are illegal sleeves.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The arm sleeve is Illegal and the socks are Legal.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

If the black & orange have feet attached to them, then they are socks and are legal. If they are cut off at the ankle, then they are illegal sleeves.

If I see this exact situation in my game (see photo) I am just assuming these to be legal (but ugly) socks. Is anybody asking the player regarding Nevadaref's post?

Reminds me of the tights/upper leg sleeve JRutledge and I were discussing a few months ago regarding college rules.

https://forum.officiating.com/basket...ml#post1046292

[JRutledge]

Those look like sleeves on the leg, those fall under the rules of sleeves which makes them illegal (high school and college BTW).

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Those look like sleeves on the leg, those fall under the rules of sleeves which makes them illegal.

Look like ugly socks to me. Might be worth asking? Player might be grateful to lose them. I wonder how may extra travels he gets called against him in season due to the obtrusiveness of the socks?

Back in the mid-1960s, it was considered fashionable to wear tube socks such as this. Not usually in colors like this, usually white with two, or three, school color stripes at the top.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

If the black & orange have feet attached to them, then they are socks and are legal. If they are cut off at the ankle, then they are illegal sleeves.

And that is an absurd result of the rules? Why would one be legal and the other not when they are effectively the same in practice.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

And that is an absurd result of the rules? Why would one be legal and the other not when they are effectively the same in practice.

Excellent point. Another example of the NFHS writing rules that don’t make sense.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Excellent point. Another example of the NFHS writing rules that don’t make sense.

Same is true with, say, blue jerseys and white arm sleeves all the way up to the shoulder being legal; white t-shirt is not legal. They look (substantially) the same.

And, it's the same issue in other sports.