a rant on game management priorities

[Old School]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Well, okay, in the games you're doing perhaps the players are pulling them out. I see that a lot with 8th grade boys especially. My games, I don't see much of it. Maybe it's a local thing. Jerseys untucked isnot a violation, true, but it's also not an unsporting act in anyone 's opinion except yours. I'm sticking to the rules and guldelines laid down for me by my own state interpreter in accordance with the NFHS. I hope you're conforming to your assignor, too.

Actually, I have never given a player a technical for this, but I would if they push me to it. Last year in college men's game, I started sending players to the bench, and the coach got mad at me, said I couldn't do it. This started a heated exchange between us and I almost whacked him for it. Since he was not in support of what I was trying to do, and his players kept doing it. This whole process of sending them to the bench became a cirrus, imo. Interrupting the game to send a player to the bench. Warning the coach for not having a sub ready in a timely fashion and you know the coach took his time about getting a replacement sub. I just think it's a lot of extra work for us to enforce the way the book wants us too.

Now, if I see a player pull his jersey up (10.3.7-h), just enough so it is marginally tucked in, after repeated warnings, he/she getting it from me. I guarantee once I send one technical, problem is solved, coaches and players.