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Again in high school there is a soft red card that can be issued. Usually for the second yellow card, I believe. I will try to check my rule book and get back with other soft red cards. It all goes back to allowing as many players participation as possible, I guess.

Technical red cards (2 yellow cards in a match) allow for a player to be substitued. Referees are paid by the host school. We follow the National HS Federation rules. Referees are assigned by Referee Assignors who are independant contractors just like officials (I believe), for the SC High School league.

Thank you Mr. Easley,
I am glad you cleared up the home cookin ref bull that the NA fans were whining about last night at Northwestern.

I have seen far too many high school games that have been decided by capricious calls rather than the quality of play. It would be nice to have a referee tracking system, so as to be able to weed out the guys that have forgotten that there is a soccer game going and act like 3 year olds with new whistles. There should also be an effort for high school to return to a 3 ref system. Perhaps they could build a core of linesmen from highschool students. Face it a lot of the guys that ref can't run fast enough to keep up with the offsides calls.

I agree moondawg,
I do not feel that home cookin is always an issue because when I played the refs from my hometown hated our team so much that the other team got most of the calls even when we were at home. As far as tracking the refs, I think it would be a great idea. There does seem to be an issue with the refs either being poorly trained or poorly monitored by a higher power such as the high school league. They get away with entirely too much bullshi+ calling.

apparently they smoke more rocks than I do

I am not saying anything about particular calls, at least on this thread, but the way Belligerent talked, that person believes that SC high schools use FIFA's Laws of the Game. The truth is that The Laws were used as a guide.

Therefore, you cannot say a high school call was the right one or the wrong one when comparing that call to the Laws. You must look at the National Federation of High Schools' rules for soccer.

Ok, i just read the "Irmo/Wando" thread. A push in the back can be a PK. When I posted earlier, the only explanation for the PK was Sesmar dribbling and the keeper picking it up- a pass back.

VOR, that's basically what I was talking about. I realize that the FIFA Laws of the Game are used as a guide. But the big rules are typically followed to a T, are they not? As in the pushing from behind in the penalty box. The foul is a Direct Free Kick offense - in the box, so it's a PK.

Pushing, tripping, kicking, etc., are all Direct Free Kick offenses - I can't imagine any league anywhere would use a different ruling for those fouls.