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  8. Hardin-Jefferson 118 Hamshire-Fannett 10/FINAL

    in High School Girls Basketball

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    This is the hidden content, please

    From Page 8 of the above listed manual:

    5. Authorizing use of a running clock when specified point differential is reached. • The UIL rules prohibits the running of a clock when a specified point differential is reached.

    Are there rules or not? If people aren't satisfied with the rules that are in place, then go through the process of officially changing the rules. If there is a specific rule at the specific district level, then someone please let me know that, but that seems problematic since the rules of UIL should be followed uniformly by ALL schools participating in the state of Texas.

    I observed a game earlier this year (not an HJ game) where coach lobbied the refs who then asked the other coach to make the second half of the game running clock, so he could get his team on the bus and out of town earlier due to the fact that it was almost a 40pt differential at half (not in their favor). Now a couple years prior, i watched the same coach, coaching against the same team (that at that time was very over-matched), not let up or ask the refs to show mercy on the other team, they were playing the game "buzzer to buzzer". Kind of confusing, coaches know the rules, one would think but everyone ultimately talks out of both sides of their mouths its seems.

    Using this logic, when a player gets to five fouls, all a coach has to do is say "I'm not going to follow the foul rule because I don't want to" and keep his/her player in. The precedent has been set of disregarding other hard coded rules, so why does anyone have to listen to anything?

    If a coach is going to throw in the towel on his players mid game, why not just forfeit the game before it starts, that way you only lose 2-0, right?

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