Can you do this?

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by tmielke

When looking at a rule, and you need to make a decision for your team, if you understand and are willing to accept the consequences is it OK to violate a rule?

This is an ethics question. My feelings, although not worth anything to anyone but me, are that you are both an ambassador of the game and a role model - for better or worse, accepted or unhappily burdened by either/both.

On soapbox.

I took a class in graduate school on Ethics in Sport a few years back, and the debates on topics were never truly settled (to be expected) over the course of the semester. However, what generally held true, and what was, in my mind, both unfortunate and culturally reflective, was that those who were coaches at some level (and were aspiring to become higher level coaches) and the majority of those who had competed in NCAA Div. IA sports believed that decisions like the one you made are completely acceptable.

I think it boils down to the fact that (for worse) there are two separate camps of the "play/coach the game the right way" ideology, and that type of decision exists in one camp, and is not even an entertainable option in the other.

Off soapbox.