sub / too many quarters

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by BOBBYMO
I had a sittuation last night that I have never ran into in 12 years of officiating. Between 3rd and 4th quarter after the 1st buzzer a coach sends a player in to sub. I catch the coach and tell him the the player has to wait till the 1st dead ball as she reported too late and that I needed the girl who finished the last quarter to come back into the game. The coach told me that he couldn't do that as the player who she was subbing for would then have played in too many quarters.
I could only think of three options that they had....

1. Keep that girl in and start the quarter with a T ( although I am not sure that I can keep a girl in knowing that she played in too many quarters).

2. Start the quarter with 4 players and the sub could could enter on the next dead ball.

3. Coach could call a time out to be able to get the girl checked into the game.

I think these are my only 3 options.. Can anyone else think of any more????

I think that the thread is getting away from the problem of the original posting, and that is that there are some states that have a quarter rule.

1) Head Coach A realized that he had a player, A1, that could not play the rest of the game due to his state's quarters played rule. Unfortunately, he realized this when it was too late, by rule, to have A6, substitute for A1.

2) The best way to look at this problem is to treat it no differently than if we were notified by the Scorer just before the start of the quarter that A1 had five fouls. The timeout period between the third and fourth quarters are over, but we are going to have Team A replace A1 with A6. There is no penalty involved. We need to remember that Coach A was trying to do the correct thing by replacing a player who he knew to be no longer eligible to play in the game.