After Sub's - Requesting Lineups

[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
To all of the doubters out there I have only one thing to say: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Mark, I was willing to support your argument to a point. But you can be so mindlessly arrogant that it defies reason. You equate referees to lawyers, as though the professions were equivalent in their approach to the rules for which they are the guardians.

However, lawyers go through 3 years of strenuous schooling and are told that precedents from 200 years ago may apply to their cases. Referees take a couple of classes, get some on-court training, buy a current rulebook and casebook, and voila. They are told that the rules they enforce are in the current version of the rules/cases they possess, not that they are responsible to study every rule written since Naismith invented the game.

You may be right that the old way of dealing with this is still the best way to handle it. But to imply that anything else represents ignorance is completely off-base and insulting to your fellow referees.