Tights

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I have seen kids that were Jewish insist wearing a yarmulke, and others not wear one at all.

A yarmulke, if held in place properly, I believe would be legal.

A) Pants: Legal
B) Compression shorts down to knees, socks up to knees: Legal
C) Tights: Illegal

Seems like a small jump from A to B, but a really big jump, in penalty, not in fashion, from B to C. Why does the NFHS force us to be fashion police?

Bottom line for me. A girl shows up with a pair of tights in one of my scholastic games with a note saying it's for medical, and/or, religious reasons, especially if the tights are the same color as the shorts, and especially if I had not heard anything in advance from any governing body, she's playing in my game, but the player, coach, and if it's a home game, the site director, will be told that this may be a problem in future games, and I'll be sending out several emails that evening to my superiors. And, if there's an evaluator at my game, and I get a bad rating for letting her play, I'll be pissed, but in my heart, I'll know that I did the right thing for the kid that night, whether she starts, and plays the whole game, or comes off the end of the bench, and plays a minute of garbage time.