Rule 3-5-3d

[IREFU2]

Is there any restrictions on the colors? These girls are now wearing the rubberband like headbands and they are currently being called hair restraints. But they sit above the forehead and on the hair. There was some discussion among us at a scrimmage today wondering and we can find a ruling in the rule book about the color being uniform or the same color of the jersey....input??

Originally Posted by IREFU2

Is there any restrictions on the colors? These girls are now wearing the rubberband like headbands and they are currently being called hair restraints. But they sit above the forehead and on the hair. There was some discussion among us at a scrimmage today wondering and we can find a ruling in the rule book about the color being uniform or the same color of the jersey....input??

No limitation on color. However, some of these "bands" have gotton thicker and made of soething other than rubber. At some point you might be able to call it a headband and then color applies.

Why worry about that when some girls HS teams have one green sock and one red sock during christmas, when their uniform is black. Legal too.

[Nevadaref]

I'll point you to this thread.

Hair Control Devices and Headbands

[Corndog89]

Originally Posted by Ralph

Why worry about that when some girls HS teams have one green sock and one red sock during christmas, when their uniform is black. Legal too.

Amen! I'll never understand why some officials go looking for trouble. As long as it's a rubber, cloth, or elastic band and is actually serving as a hair restraint, then it's okay by me. To rehash a story I know I've told on the forum in the past...I was calling a girls varsity game a couple years ago and all the girls on one team were wearing different colored/designed bikini tops under their jerseys (and no, I'm still not a perv, you could see them through the shirts). One of my partners wanted to make them change because they didn't match or some goofy reason. My other partner and I told him he was out of his mind if he did that and also totally on his own...he wanted us to tell high school girls to change their underwear Why create headaches for yourself???

[IREFU2]

Originally Posted by Corndog89

Amen! I'll never understand why some officials go looking for trouble. As long as it's a rubber, cloth, or elastic band and is actually serving as a hair restraint, then it's okay by me. To rehash a story I know I've told on the forum in the past...I was calling a girls varsity game a couple years ago and all the girls on one team were wearing different colored/designed bikini tops under their jerseys (and no, I'm still not a perv, you could see them through the shirts). One of my partners wanted to make them change because they didn't match or some goofy reason. My other partner and I told him he was out of his mind if he did that and also totally on his own...he wanted us to tell high school girls to change their underwear Why create headaches for yourself???

Umm, not looking for trouble at all. Just getting clarification. Thanks for all of the replies....

[Corndog89]

Originally Posted by IREFU2

Umm, not looking for trouble at all. Just getting clarification. Thanks for all of the replies....

Sorry, you're right. Just carried away by one of my pet peeves...OOO playing fashion police . Mea culpa...

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Corndog89

Sorry, you're right. Just carried away by one of my pet peeves...OOO playing fashion police . Mea culpa...

I'm so sick of this cop-out response. No personal offense to the poster, but to anyone who shares that opinion, I have to speak out.

1. When you are hired as a game official, you have a job to do. That job is enforce the rules. You don't have the right to elect to not enforce certain rules because you don't care for them.

2. So you don't like being the "fashion police." Well, tough. Then go work some rec league what Old School and MeRef in which the players can wear whatever this wish. Or go do that and1 tour. This is HS basketball and there are people who sit on national and state committees and write these regulations for the betterment of the game and attempt to keep the attention where it belongs--on the skills of the players. They know a heck of a lot more about what is proper for HS basketball than you do.

3. Are there other rules which you choose also to disregard? Perhaps you don't want to be the "traveling police" or the "OOB police." What about the "3 seconds gestopo?" Perhaps you don't want to be the "language police" so you allow the players to swear like sailors. Do you also not enforce bench decorum because you don't want to get a reputation as the "coach police?" One can say this about a number of aspects of the game. Uniforms is not unique.

4. If you think that its different with uniforms because they don't have anything to do with the conduct of the game, then ask yourself what you would think of a referee who didn't wear a striped shirt and black shoes, but instead showed up for the game a red T-shirt and colorful running shoes? He states that he will call the game just the same and will stand out from the teams since they aren't wearing red, so what's the big deal. Why are we worried about the "referee fashion police?"

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by IREFU2

Is there any restrictions on the colors? These girls are now wearing the rubberband like headbands and they are currently being called hair restraints. But they sit above the forehead and on the hair. There was some discussion among us at a scrimmage today wondering and we can find a ruling in the rule book about the color being uniform or the same color of the jersey....input??

In NCAA, any material that goes completely around the head is a "hair restraint" and must meet the legal requirements.

In FED, the restrictions only apply to "headbands" -- generally the "2-inch wide, sweat absorbing material". It specifically does not apply to pre-wrap.

Very popular this year is a 1/4-inch wide rubbery-material device with a dozen or so NIKE logos on it. I'd like to see that banned, or at least a clarification from the NFHS.