You make the call

[Wellmer]

This happened in a sub district game the other night and I heard this second hand and have not found it yet in the rule book. Here goes :

A team starts the game with 7 players. One fouls out leaving them with 6. As the game goes along, one of the players on this team gets into it with the coach and the coach tells him to go to the locker room, he's done for the night. During the 4th quarter, another player fouls out leaving this team with only 4 players on the floor. They would still have 5 except the coach told the disruptive player on his team to hit the high road to the locker room. Here's the question, does the coach have to put that player back in or can he legally play with 4? That player wasn't actually disqualifed from the game, only told to leave by his coach. The kicker is, this team actually ended up holding on for the win to advance to the next round.

[APG]

Play with 4

[Adam]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Play with 4

Yep. Coach says he's ineligible, I'm not arguing.

Side note, I hope the coach didn't send the kid alone.

[Duffman]

Dude this ones easy. I've watched Hoosiers over 700 times. His team was on the floor.

[Rich]

Didn't we go round and round about this not too long ago?

Anyway, I was on the other side a while back, but I was convinced otherwise. The coach decides who's eligible. Easy enough.

(The only place I can see this being a problem is when a coach has a poor FT shooter on the bench who is the only sub and a player gets injured while being fouled and the coach uses the Hoosiers line. But that's an unlikely enough scenario where I'm not really concerned about it.)

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Duffman

Dude this ones easy. I've watched Hoosiers over 700 times. His team was on the floor.

Best sports movie ever: Hoosiers or Rudy?

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Best sports movie ever: Hoosiers or Rudy?

Neither. Correct answer: Caddy Shack

[Wellmer]

Those 2 movies are neck and neck for me but being a basketball guy, gotta go with Hoosiers. Back to the issue, only thing I could say is if that player is a terrible free throw shooter and the coach has the gall to think he can win without him and that's the reason he sent him off, then that's another story. In this case though, the kid was just being a knucklehead. Not sure if someone went with him to the lockerroom or not?

[Duffman]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Best sports movie ever: Hoosiers or Rudy?

I'd rather watch a marathon of the "Bachelor" than watch Rudy once. Just one guys opinion.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Best sports movie ever: Hoosiers or Rudy?

Coach Norman Dale or Rudy Ruettiger? C'mon man.

[Toren]

Originally Posted by Wellmer

This happened in a sub district game the other night and I heard this second hand and have not found it yet in the rule book. Here goes :

A team starts the game with 7 players. One fouls out leaving them with 6. As the game goes along, one of the players on this team gets into it with the coach and the coach tells him to go to the locker room, he's done for the night. During the 4th quarter, another player fouls out leaving this team with only 4 players on the floor. They would still have 5 except the coach told the disruptive player on his team to hit the high road to the locker room. Here's the question, does the coach have to put that player back in or can he legally play with 4? That player wasn't actually disqualifed from the game, only told to leave by his coach. The kicker is, this team actually ended up holding on for the win to advance to the next round.

The referees let this team start with 7 players? Around here 5 players get to play at a time

Yes he can legally play with 4. As Snags said, the player should not have gone to the locker room alone, he needed to be accompanied by an adult.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Toren

The referees let this team start with 7 players? Around here 5 players get to play at a time

Yes he can legally play with 4. As Snags said, the player should not have gone to the locker room alone, he needed to be accompanied by an adult.

Which is why I'd respond the same whether the player in question is on the bench or in the locker room.

[tref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Which is why I'd respond the same whether the player in question is on the bench or in the locker room.

If we DQ or eject a player & they go to the lockrroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. Is that the same as if coach says its a wrap??
Coach did that not us.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by tref

If we DQ or eject a player & they go to the lockrroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. Is that the same as if coach says its a wrap??
Coach did that not us.

My point is, if the coach says he's not eligible, I'm good with that. I'm not forcing him to send the kid off the bench.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by tref

If we DQ or eject a player & they go to the lockrroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. Is that the same as if coach says its a wrap??
Coach did that not us.

Had a local kid here quit the team during a game once. Left his uniform in the locker room at halftime and went home. No rule against that.