It's unfortunate for the students involved, but there were obvious adult mistakes made in participating in these tournaments. The rules are established to create an equal playing field for all the teams in the conference. I think it's a fair rule. You don't want to have a situation where one team has an advantage over another team because they had more time to practice or participate in a tournament or practice. |
The main rule violation was the extra game. |
This was a conference ruling, a conference decision to do this. It is part of their by-laws. And the state agreed with the conference ruling. |