SC Soccer Forums SCSoccer.com Forums Boys Varsity Soccer League response to my question on use of the Rawlings ball for playoffs.

Then you have bad officials.

Indeed

Where does one go to actually acquire Rawlings soccer balls?

After not seeing Rawlings as an available brand on soccer.com, I went directly to www.rawlings.com, "The Official Online Store of Rawlings Sporting Goods."

Sport categories listed on the site were Baseball, Softball,Football, Basketball.

I searched for "soccer" and got the following response:

"You searched for soccer and found nothing."

Let me get this straight...people are penalized for not using a ball that the manufacturer's website does not acknowledge that they sell, for a sport that they do not even list?

And not using program money to pay an inflated price for a substandard ball is "unsportsmanlike conduct"?

I did finally find the "Rawlings SB1050 SCHSL Soccerball" on BSN Sports website for $76.99 each...considerably more than we would normally pay for a GOOD game ball.

After hunting everywhere and then asking around a coach friend found that link. It's sad they are forcing us to over spend and hunt all over the place for a product that the company itself doesn't advertise.

Yeah I didn't know it was THAT. My goodness........and the league's response is "you'll get an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty" to a ball by a company that doesn't even have soccer on their website? This is funny

From the SCHSL:

Please use the below address to express your concern about the Rawlings balls.
schsl@rawlings.com

Also, for those that think the balls are not heavy enough, the rule on the ball states:

"not more than 453 g (16 oz) in weight and not less than 396 g (14 oz) at the start of the match"

Take a digital scale and weigh the ball in question. If it isn't in that band for weight, it isn't a legal ball.

We used Rawlins balls against Aiken & it wasn't too bad, considering the brand we're dealing with.

I still don't agree with making it mandatory, but I understand it from a business standpoint (they signed an exclusive deal so yeah, we have to use their gear). I don't know if there's enough weight to merit the HSL eliminating the mandate for us. Plus, it's still South Carolina HSL we're talking about here & we know how they are when it comes to our sport

Maybe if we call it Futbal they'll get confused and work with us more