too many quarters

johnfox · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 06, 2001, 10:46am

WHAT OCCURS WHEN THE TABLE SOUNDS THE HORN TO STOP THE GAME AND INFORMS THE OFFICIALS THAT A PLAYER FROM THE JV GAME IS PLAYING THEIR 6TH QUARTER OF THE EVENING IN THE VARSITY GAME? ANY PENALTY? I'VE NEVER HAD IT, WAS ASKED BY ANOTHER OFFICIAL. MY REPLY WAS NO PENALTY, NOT OUR JURISDICTION.

bigwhistle · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 06, 2001, 11:00am

Good answer John...

That is a situation that the administration of the league has to address. The officials on the floor should not be involved in this.

By the way....it is ok to type in lower case and not yell at everybody *S*

Brian Watson · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 06, 2001, 12:06pm

Believe it or not, in OH they want us to oversee this. If we are told we are to prevent the player from entering.

I prefer that we are not involved.

Mark Dexter · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 06, 2001, 01:49pm

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Originally posted by Brian Watson
Believe it or not, in OH they want us to oversee this. If we are told we are to prevent the player from entering.

I prefer that we are not involved.

I think the state should leave the refs out of this. What happens when the best visitor JV/V player enters the game and the home book says he/she is ineligible?

What's next? Are we supposed to check the last several games in the books to make sure a player hasn't been overplayed? Do we forfeit the first game of the season because the team started practice before the legal date? If an ineligible player plays, there is a recourse - the state asoc. If an eligible player is held out by the officials, there is no recourse.

williebfree · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 06, 2001, 02:30pm

Use of illegal players goes back to "who knows when"....

I agree that the officials should not be put in a position to make that "call." It is interesting what some schools will do. The state associations do need to intervene and make the punishiment severe enough to disuade future "transgressions."

Whenever I hear the phrase "ineligible player", I instantaneously think of a situation which occurred in the 1981 WI State Tourn. DIV 1 (Largest Schools). A Milwaukee school used an ineligible player, 20 year-old student, to narrowly defeat a much smaller, "upstate" school. As far as I know, the "Upstate" school was never awarded the "Golden Basketball" and the scandal was minimized. It was a tragic shame. Especially when interscholastic sports are models for preparing our students to be better citizens.

OK, I am "off my soabox".