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[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by Ralph Stubenthal
But it just doesn't seem right for it to be this way. If this is allowed, the coach could start pulling people out of the stands and putting them on the floor as long as they have a uniform.

There are other rules, which you do not enforce, that deal with who is eligible to play. If a coach plays ineligible players in any league at any level that I have coached, it results in a forfeit. So the only issue should be that eligible team members are not in the book and the book needs to be fixed, because the coach can't just put anyone who happens to be in the arena into the game.

As for the technical rule, I always thought that it worked the way Rut has it. But this discussion makes it clear that the rule is not.