New Fed basketball Rules--2008/09

[Jimgolf]

Is the new rule that permits beige uniforms called the George Carlin Rule?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Jimgolf

Is the new rule that permits beige uniforms called the George Carlin Rule?

I'm confused. What "new rule ... permits beige uniforms?"

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I'm confused. What "new rule ... permits beige uniforms?"

Certainly no new rule of fashion or good taste.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I'm confused. What "new rule ... permits beige uniforms?"

It's not for uniforms, it's for hair control devices:

The committee also clarified Rule 3-5-3 to state "any item that goes around the entire head (elastic strips/bands, pre-wrap, headbands, etc.) shall meet the rule requirements regarding color, maximum size, logo restrictions and team uniformity." The committee also added black and beige to the list of legal colors.

So a beige headband is now legal. Does that mean beige sweatbands are legal? If not, then if a player is wearing beige pre-wrap as a hair-control device, can her teammates wear white sweatbands?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

It's not for uniforms, it's for hair control devices:

Thanks, that's what I thought.

So a beige headband is now legal. Does that mean beige sweatbands are legal? If not, then if a player is wearing beige pre-wrap as a hair-control device, can her teammates wear white sweatbands?

It's the same as the NCAAW rule. All "hair control devices" must be the same color, and that color can be black, white, beige or the predominant unifom color.

IF there needs to be a rule (and I would be okay with "no color restrictions"), then I think this change is good.

[Back In The Saddle]

I vote no color restrictions.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It's the same as the NCAAW rule. All "hair control devices" must be the same color, and that color can be black, white, beige or the predominant unifom color.

But can the hair control devices be different from the sweatbands? In Men's rules, it doesn't matter which legal color you use for headbands or sweatbands; but everybody on the team has to be wearing the same color for ALL those items.

So, under the new FED rule, if a player is wearing beige or black pre-wrap to hold her hair, is her teammate allowed to wear white sweatbands? Or does the new rule make beige legal for sweatbands too?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

But can the hair control devices be different from the sweatbands? In Men's rules, it doesn't matter which legal color you use for headbands or sweatbands; but everybody on the team has to be wearing the same color for ALL those items.

So, under the new FED rule, if a player is wearing beige or black pre-wrap to hold her hair, is her teammate allowed to wear white sweatbands? Or does the new rule make beige legal for sweatbands too?

My impression from what they've released, and we haven't seen the new text yet, is that beige and black are now valid colors, along with white and the pred. color of the jersey. And I would assume (you know where that gets us) that they're all lumped into one category. So everybody who wears any kind of sweat band or circumcranial hair control device, must all wear the same color.

My best guess and $0.02

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

My impression from what they've released, and we haven't seen the new text yet, is that beige and black are now valid colors, along with white and the pred. color of the jersey. And I would assume (you know where that gets us) that they're all lumped into one category. So everybody who wears any kind of sweat band or circumcranial hair control device, must all wear the same color.

My best guess and $0.02

I would ***-U-ME the same

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

So a beige headband is now legal. Does that mean beige sweatbands are legal? If not, then if a player is wearing beige pre-wrap as a hair-control device, can her teammates wear white sweatbands?

Since the NFHS is increasing our role as the "Fashion Police", do we get badges?



By the way, as a former player, and coach, I'm all for players looking "uniform", after all, they're part of a team, and remember, "There's no I in team", but, for the most part, "fashion" issues should be the coach's, or athletic director's, job, not the officials job. On the other hand, some consider officials to be the caretakers of the game. This issue gives me an overly officious official headache. I need to take a couple of aspirOOOins.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Since the NFHS is increasing our role as the "Fashion Police", do we get badges?

Badges!? Badges!? We don't need no stinking badges!

[BillyMac]

Snaqwells: Great Line. Thanks for reminding me about one of the greatest lines in movie history.

From "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" with Humphrey Bogart. In one of the scenes in the movie a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C. Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales.

Dobbs: 'If you're the police where are your badges?'
Gold Hat: 'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZ...eature=related

[Adam]

I was quoting Blazing Saddles.