NCAAW Rules

[BayStateRef]

The IAABO ruling hinges on definition of "team member" ("member of bench personnel who is in uniform and eligible to become a player.") My IAABO interpreter is among those who say that there may not be more players listed in the book than are at the gym site during warmups. This ruling followed a conference call with many IAABO interpreters and eventually found its way into the refresher exam.

I enforced this for exactly one game and then stopped -- in part because other officials I worked with (including many from the same IAABO board) said they would not.

[Old School]

This borders on over-officiating. Why look for trouble? You telling me I'm gonna tell the coach to remove these names from the book! I have never heard or seen any official do this! Likewise, I just count up the players and try to make sure if I got 15, there's 15 listed in the book. If there 16 or more, I have never heard of anything that says in the rules to remove 16 and above if they're not present.

However, a player is stuck in traffic, car drifted off the road in a snowstorm, auto accident, any number of factors like this could come into to play. He calls the coach and informs him he will be late but will be there. The coach believes his player and adds his number to the book. The player gets there 10-minutes after the start of the game. All is good, the name and # is in the book. The player can immedately enter the game.

[BillyMac]

From Old School: "This borders on over-officiating. Why look for trouble?"

I agree 100%! Our IAABO interpreter questioned this 2005 IAABO Refresher Exam answer with IAABO and was told that the question and answer, as I stated in an earlier post, which, by the way, I copied word for word from the exam, was not a mistake. Mistakes happen on two or three questions every year, I can't believe that a large organization, like IAABO, can't do a better job of proofreading.

Our interpreter has told us to ignore this IAABO "interpretation" of NFHS rules. When we count players during the warmups, and check the scorebook, we like to see more players listed in the book than are on the floor.

In my opinion, this has been the worst question and answer that I've ever seen on an IAABO exam or refresher exam in my 27 years with IAABO. A close second to this question, was the refesher exam question asking if it was legal for players to play basketball in a "football three-point stance".

When I was coaching (yes, I was on the "Dark Side" for over twenty-five years), I would list all fourteen of my squad members, in numerical order, in the book, for every game, even if players were sick, injured, or in street clothes on the bench for a suspension, etc., and I would instruct my manager to simply copy this list of fourteen players from game to game, thus avoiding any possibility of a technical foul for not listing player.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

When I was coaching (yes, I was on the "Dark Side" for over twenty-five years),

Why do you call coaching the dark side?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Old School

Why do you call coaching the dark side?

Because in officiating, you use "the force".