Playing with 4

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by iubirdman

We have always taken it to mean a healthy player who has not fouled out and has quarters available to play and is on the bench as kids that are available

...what if...

...that "healthy" player just cussed the coach and/or said he wanted to "quit this lousy team"?

You could whack the team, you could try and MAKE the coach play the player, you could do a host of things...many of them wrong IMO.

If the coach tells me the player is not available...then the player is not available...simple as that.

In my area...I would be supported...do what ya gotta do in your area.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by RookieDude

Good question Coach...we have had many a discussion here on this very topic.

This is how you might like the conversation to go...

Official: "Coach, do you have an eligible player to sub in?"

Coach: "No, I do not."

The conversation may continue...

Official: "But Coach, I see a team member on the bench... suited up."

Coach: "She is not eligible."

That would do it for me...there are some here that may have some different conversation scenarios...stand by...you may get them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm letting them do this too... but if you get into the conversation like this, then what do you do in the next quarter when they DO want to play her?

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Don't get me wrong, I'm letting them do this too... but if you get into the conversation like this, then what do you do in the next quarter when they DO want to play her?

I guess we could "what if" this to death...

I have seen a lot, but, I have never had a coach try to put a player in AFTER he said the player was not eligible or available.

I'd have to go case by case...for example:

If a coach tells me his player is not available because of sickness...then said his player miraculously got well...I'm probably letting the player play.