Ejection Rewrite

[LaxRef]

Bold sections are my proposed additions.

RULE 5 SECTION 11 EJECTION

A player, substitute, coach, nonplaying member of a team or anyone officially connected with the team shall be disqualified for:

ART. 1 . . . Deliberately striking or attempting to strike anyone or (delete -> leave <- delete) leaving the bench during an altercation.

ART. 2 . . . Use of tobacco or smokeless tobacco.

ART. 3 . . . Second non-releasable, unsportsmanlike foul.

ART. 4 . . . Any action deemed to be flagrant misconduct by the officials.

PENALTY: Three-minute non-releasable penalty and suspension for the remainder of the game. The officiating assigning authority is responsible for notifying the appropriate school of the suspension. NOTE: Individual state associations will normally have automatic suspensions that accompany any ejection.

5.11 Situation 2
After the final horn but before the officials have approved the score and left the field, a coach or player commits an act deemed to be flagrant misconduct or another ejection foul. RULING: The officials still have jurisdiction and may assess the ejection and have it recorded in the scorebook even though the game has ended.

5.11 Situation 3
After the final horn, or with a few seconds left in the game and Team A leading by several goals and attempting to run the clock out, B1, confident that he can't be penalized, deliberately and violently slashes A1. RULING: Flagrant misconduct on B1. B1 is ejected.

[rilax]

ART. 1 . . . Deliberately striking or attempting to strike anyone or (delete -> leave <- delete) leaving the bench during an altercation.



should say "the bench or coaching area " if you are going to send in a rewrite

[CoachRob]

PENALTY: Three-minute non-releasable penalty and suspension for the remainder of the game. The ejected player shall be removed from the field and bench area (so long as there is appropriate school supervision) and in any case the in-home shall serve the penalty time for that player. The officiating assigning authority is responsible for notifying the appropriate school of the suspension. NOTE: Individual state associations will normally have automatic suspensions that accompany any ejection.


This clarifies that the ejection is immediate and he does NOT serve the time in the box. He needs to leave the field.

[CoachRob]

LR,
Will you include my addition to your rule change?

[LaxRef]

Yep, these are both good changes (yours and rilax's).

[CoachRob]

Seems as though we've rewritten most major rules so far. When do you submit them?

[laxfan25]

I like the proposed changes, especially the flagrant misconduct portion. It can cover a multitude of egregious sins that really warrant an ejection. There was an incident in a HS game last week where a player dove at a goalie's knees and lower legs when he was running the ball upfield. Severely sprained the goalie's ankle, luckily nothing was broken. If I had been doing the game I would have likely ejected the player, but the NFHS book really doesn't cover that specifically, so this would give us a solid legal foundation. When I was reading the book I was actually surprised that we don't have that latitude now, lathough I have kicked kids out before and not had any objections, since they usually merited the discipline.