Illegal player...libero

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Originally Posted by Antonio.King

I remember talking about this in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. Technically, by rule, we would be allowed to go back into the previous set if it was impacted. However, that's not something that's being encouraged to do as an "industry standard" because of how dicey it can get.

. *facepalm*

The problem with the industry standard is that we only have the written rules to go by. What they do one weekend in Atlanta is not in the rule book. I personally think this rule is a little squirrelly. I can see an illegal team member playing in a match would invalidate a match. But having number 8 instead of 18 in at the beginning of the set does not really have any effect on the outcome as long as rotation and substitution rules are preserved. If it is discovered latter or a substitution or rotational error occurs then a LOR and correction would be sufficient. Think of a team of only six players and there was a typo on the lineup sheet, 6 instead of 8 discovered at the end of the match. Was the opponents really 'cheated' out of a win? I know this has been an FIVB rule for some time, but we are not playing international volleyball here, USAV is mostly teenage kids. The way we used to handle this and the way NCAA and HS still handle this seems to have worked pretty good. I just don't know why we went nuclear this year....well actually I do.