New Correctable Error?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I know, and I agree with you for the most part. One of the scorekeeper's duties is to notify the official about infractions due to substitutions or the number of players. I guess there just seems to be something vaguely wrong with this apparent adding an additional time limit to it.

Maybe my brain just vaguely needs a weekend.

To me this seems to address an additional situation. The "normal" situation is a sub who comes on illegally during a dead ball. That's covered, and if we miss it, he's legal once the ball is live. The statute of limitations, as it were, is well defined.

How do you apply that rule to the situation where an illegal sub runs on during play? Is he legal immediately since the ball is live? Is he legal the next time the ball becomes live? This ruling makes the answer clear.

It also addresses the reality that while we are expected to see it happen during a dead ball, we're likely watching other things during a live ball. Thus some help from the scorekeeper is reasonable.

But the language they employ has a definite correctable error "flavor" to it. I don't like that.

My $0.02