Fashion Police -- Only watch above the Socks

[bball_lurker]

Completely unrelated to socks, but on the note of fashion police, take a look at this picture.

http://mickwhite.org/kvs/2009-photos.../target36.html

This is a fairly big time HS game played yesterday in WA state. Seems to be a few violations here, but they seem to have let it go, which I think is good.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

Completely unrelated to socks, but on the note of fashion police, take a look at this picture.

http://mickwhite.org/kvs/2009-photos.../target36.html

This is a fairly big time HS game played yesterday in WA state. Seems to be a few violations here, but they seem to have let it go, which I think is good.

Why?

[bball_lurker]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Why?

It has nothing to do with the game of basketball. Black or white head band, neither will distract from the game. The rule makers, I believe, are out of their minds. Next will they decide to dictate nail polish and hair style? It's a waste of everyones time worrying about that sort of thing.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

It has nothing to do with the game of basketball. Black or white head band, neither will distract from the game. The rule makers, I believe, are out of their minds. Next will they decide to dictate nail polish and hair style? It's a waste of everyones time worrying about that sort of thing.

Without commenting on the actual play in question, I disagree. If the rules makers want us to take care of this, it's our job. Not our job to disregard rules we think are stupid.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

http://mickwhite.org/kvs/2009-photos.../target36.html

Seems to be a few violations here,

I don't see any, except the officials' gray shirts. A girl has a white jersey and black headband, but that's legal. None of her teammates is wearing anything different. There's one girl with white on her wrist and a black headband, but it looks to me like tape. Again, no violation. What am I missing?

[Scratch85]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I don't see any, except the officials' gray shirts. A girl has a white jersey and black headband, but that's legal. None of her teammates is wearing anything different. There's one girl with white on her wrist and a black headband, but it looks to me like tape. Again, no violation. What am I missing?

I'm with scrapper. I don't see any violations.

[bball_lurker]

Oh, I thought away had to wear black headbands and home white. Is that not true? Looks like they're all wearing black.
Edit: The last varsity home game I watched, one girl had to remove a black headband in the middle of a game.

[Scratch85]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

Oh, I thought away had to wear black headbands and home white. Is that not true? Looks like they're all wearing black.
Edit: The last varsity home game I watched, one girl had to remove a black headband in the middle of a game.

Choices for either team are; black, white, beige or a single solid color similar to the torso of the jersey. A teams headbands must be uniform in color.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

Oh, I thought away had to wear black headbands and home white. Is that not true?

Without trying to be too critical, I'd say that it's better to post a question thant to claim that the officials made a "mistake", say it was good that they ignored a rule, then show that you don't know the rule in the first place.

[bball_lurker]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Without trying to be too critical, I'd say that it's better to post a question thant to claim that the officials made a "mistake", say it was good that they ignored a rule, then show that you don't know the rule in the first place.

I was wrong, my bad! The rule has been enforced a little haphazardly and I made a assumption. As I said, in a VG game last week, a home player was made to remove a black headband, in the middle of a game.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

What am I missing?

As I reviewed the series of photos I saw the white team with both gray AND black headbands/hair restraints.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by grunewar

As I reviewed the series of photos I saw the white team with both gray AND black headbands/hair restraints.

I would be willing to bet the "gray" you see is actually black prewrap that's stretched out. I've seen that quite a bit, and no one that I know has ever diferentiated between shades of a color.

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by grunewar

As I reviewed the series of photos I saw the white team with both gray AND black headbands/hair restraints.

These are two different items by rule. "Headbands" have color requirements. "Hair Control devises" do not.

[Scratch85]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Sorry, tights are not pants.

Originally Posted by Scratch85

Are pants addressed anywhere other than 3-4-5?

Are you sure tights can't be worn as pants? I agree it would look "way wrong", but I can't find a rule prohibiting it.

I remember a thread (NFHS) about this exact situation. I believe they allowed it.

[All_Heart]

One way to get around this......I'm color blind