Scorebook verified no one checked in. Did they verify which players were on the court at the end of the half?

Easiest solution. But in my years, not a single coach has made an issue of it.

There is one scorer in my area who writes in the book the numbers of every player on the court when each quarter ends. If different players start a quarter without reporting, she has the timer sound the horn and has no trouble telling the coach (visiting coach, of course) exactly who was in the game when the quarter ended.

The evidence was clear...and left me no choice but to enforce the rule. At the next quarter, the players made a special "show" of checking in.

I think it was a POE a couple of years ago, and all scorers should (but not all do, I know) know who is in the game at any given time. (And, if it's too much for the scorer than someone else at the table can track it.)

Heck, many gyms have the current players on the scoreboard.

Damn, you must work in some rich school districts. :cool:

Is this because the home coach is aware of the rule and how much a stickler the scorekeeper is or because the scorekeeper's a homer?

Is it just me.... or is this a rather stupid rule.

They blew the whistle and the teams played on, much to the consternation of the HC.

The scorer involved said that it would be too difficult to keep track of this, since there's no place to put it in the scorebook. According to him, he's got to add up points for the quarter and verify other "stuff" and therefore has no time to do it.

This was my argument in our meeting. "What if he was up to some shenanigans." If this comes up in my game I think my response would be that he would have to prove it for me. I don't want him to be able to pick the lineup for the other coach. The best solution some of us came with was to ask the coach "Are these the same players that ended the quarter?" thus putting it on him.

For me, this is all on the scorer. If the scorer can't tell me who finished the last quarter, I'm not trying to remember. And that will be the end of my detective work.

Probably the first. But I never asked. I had her do it in three games...and she was consistent. One visiting coach complained bitterly, but I told her that I had no choice but to enforce the rule, since the scorer certainly had it all documented. In that game, this coach was burned twice: at the start of the second quarter and at the start of the second half. Shame on her for not learning after the first incident. At the start of the fourth quarter, I watched the girls make a big show of checking in properly.

Basketball is the state's big sport, so I think a lot of money and sponsorships come to make gyms better. Change this to baseball and not many care. ;)

Peace