JV Rules for varsity play

What are the rules about JV players playing in the JV and Varsity games same week?

 

Last year they had this thing called an '8 quarter rule'. My son was part of it as a freshman. He played mostly JV but longsnapped some for varsity and dressed with varsity every game. Everytime you go in, even for one play, it counts as a quarter. After you have appeared in 8 quarters then you either have to stay up on varsity or stay down on JV. If you stay down and varsity has an injury, they cam call you up but you have to stay up. There is probably more to it than this but that's the gist of it.

 

EIGHT QUARTER PARTICIPATION: In emergency or “lack of depth” situations, freshmanand/or sophomore junior varsity football players will be allowed a maximum of 8 quarters
per season of “on the fi eld” play as a varsity football player. This is an allowable exemption from
the rule counting dressing for a game as participation in a varsity contest and will enable a junior
varsity player to be available for emergency or lack of depth participation in the varsity contest.
The intent of the rule is to give coaches some alternatives for junior varsity players to continue to
gain value game experience at the junior varsity level and still be available as a backup player in
the varsity game. The following conditions must be met:
• Such players must be pre-determined and pre-approved prior to dressing for participation—
completion of the 8 Quarter Pre-Approval Form containing signatures of a licensed athletic trainer
or medical doctor, principal, athletic director, and parent/legal custodian. (If a designated player or
players participated in the junior varsity contest, medical information shall include evidence that
player(s) is adequately hydrated and void of injury that would render player(s) unfi t to play.) The
Form must be faxed to the NCHSAA offi ce and to the conference president no later than 3:00PM
on date of scheduled varsity football game.
• Following the game, a status report on the designated players must be completed which shall
include the names of all freshman and sophomore junior varsity football player(s) designated as
emergency players and report the number of quarter(s) in which each athlete actually played.
Any portion of a quarter equals a quarter played. Form must be signed by coach, athletic director
and principal and faxed to the NCHSAA and conference offi ce the fi rst school day after the varsity
contest. Anytime a JV player must be used as a starter on the varsity team, that player is ineligible
for the JV game.
• This is a 2-year experiment and will be evaluated at the conclusion of the 2007 football
season.
• $500 fi ne for failure to submit appropriate paper work – pre-participation form and follow-up
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