Changing starters in Home book

[Gimlet25id]

Originally Posted by Da Official

Great advice Flare! Also from my understanding, officials for varsity games should review the book and get the coaches to sign off on it. I don't know if and where this is written but its my understanding...

I don't know where you read or heard that. Maybe thats a local management thing in your area. The coaches have signed off on the book by submitting their rosters before the 10 minute mark.

Not that Flares advice is bad, but I for one am not going to remind the coaches to double check the book to make sure it is correct. If the book isn't correct by the 10 minute mark then thats on the coaches.

Once I go over to check the book (Close the book out) I'm checking that #'s are legal, number of players in the book is either the same or more then the # on the floor, & that the starters are designated.

Its really not my job, IMO, to do the coaches job of making sure there isn't a mistake. If a situation happens where the scorer transposed the #'s over wrong then I would handle just like the others and fix it without penalty.

I had a situation this year in a game where a player substituted in, the # on his jersey was 24 but he was in the book as 42. I checked the visiting book (which was this players book) and they also had him as 42. I assessed a admin. "T".

Once I get to the book I'm assuming both coaches have done their jobs and has made sure that the information in the book is correct.