Replacing Injured FT Shooter = Done for game?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Maybe this was not clear in your area, but other than this board, I have never heard anyone suggest that we should do anything with this at all in any of my sports. This directive came and went without much fanfare or notice. I have no idea what we are supposed to do or enforce anything. Even when you gave the information about getting a medical professional to approve a player to play, how the in heck do we even know how to get that information? This is why I say this is only a guideline for the coaches and schools, not for us.

How do you know how to do anything? By the same means that you obtain all of your other instructions for games.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

How do you know how to do anything? By the same means that you obtain all of your other instructions for games.

Having a concussion is a medial condition. And since I did not go to medical school or having any formal medical training, I am not going to diagnose a condition I have no training to accurately notice, I am not getting involved in that action. Now if this is what your state or association wants to do that is fine with me. But this is three years old, there are no current rules that reference this material you quoted and I am not in a professional capacity to draw a conclusion of when and when a player has a concussion. I am not going there and going to open myself up for more liability because a player plays or does not play in a sport based on what I might think or not think is a medical issue. Now if a player is knocked out, then I can see that and ask for information so they can play. But you can have a concussion and not be knocked out. I am not going to interject myself in that part of the game.

Peace

[Adam]

There is a big danger in granting officials this authority; if we fail to utilize it in a situation where a player has a concussion but we don't know about it, we're setting ourselves up for a lawsuit.