Interesting one

[Juulie Downs]

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

Varsity Girls. I couldn't actually hear on this, so I'm just going from what I got second hand, and what I could see from the stands.

Play is stopped. A1 has blood on jersey, ref tells her to change it. Coach A calls time out, A1 grabs a spare jersey and is now A45. She had a tank top underneath, and changes at the bench. You probably know what's coming now.

Oh, dear...

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

The other two refs confer, then all three get together, T on A1. No one around me could figure out what was going on, I knew it from this great forum. No stripping on the court. I was tempted to make a girls gone wild joke, but wasn't sure how it would be received.

You're a thinker. I like that!

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

My question, while this rule is probably more common on the boys side, it probably is pretty rare on the girls side.

Not as rare as you might think, which I suspect is why the rule was made. I think it's dumb myself, but apparently there was some pretty raucous teasing somewhere sometime, and now we all gotta go out of the gym to change.

Originally Posted by bball_lurker

As a ref, would you let the player know they have to leave the gym to change jerseys?

I would absolutely let the player know as I was making the kid change. A T in this situation is a reflection on my laziness, imo.

[grunewar]

I did a lot of GV this summer and fall and it came up quite often where a player would have the wrong color T-shirt on underneath their jersey and they would be informed they needed wouldn't be allowed to participate.

At the beginning of the season some would attempt do that "old trick" where they keep their shirt on but take their undergarment off.........(fascinating....but I digress).

We were instructed not to let this occur, or any, ANY, other action such as this on the court. They all needed to be made out of the visible confines of the court.....took a while, but they/we all got used to it (some went under the bleachers others to the locker room or bathroom). Don't care where, just not on the court where you can be seen.

[BillyMac]

Prep school boys this past Saturday. My partner and I are watching warmups. I note three visitor players with illegal undershirts (wrong color). My partner notes two home players with illegal undershirts (wrong color). We instruct them to change their undershirts, and to do so outside the visual confines of the court.

Maybe the words that we used, i.e., visual confines of the court, were too difficult for prep school players to understand?

It is a really big gymnasium, three ninety-four foot courts, plenty of room outside the endlines and sidelines. Closest locker rooms are a hike and a half away from the court. Bleachers are not the type you can hide behind.

You guessed it, all five players go over to their benches, take of their jerseys, pull off their undershirts, and put their jerseys back on.

Forum members are certainly welcome to criticize us if you want, but we just looked the other way. Wasn't this rule implemented to keep players who foul out from showing contempt for the call by taking off their jersey and throwing it onto the bench?

And it's January. Why do these players think that they can wear any color undershirt that they happen grab out of their bureau drawer? The coaches told me in the pregame that their players were properly equipped. Do these coaches even know what that means? What have my colleagues been doing while watching warmup lines the past month? Of course, my colleagues can think the same thing about me when these players perform the Noxzema Shave Cream "Stripper" commercial in the future.

Man, that was some commercial. She was hot before hot meant hot.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Wasn't this rule implemented to keep players who foul out from showing contempt for the call by taking off their jersey and throwing it onto the bench?
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I don't think so, at least not exclusively.