Well HI twinsburg parent!!!
Haha! Well Hi Jed!
1) I am a soccer fan (hence my forum name ... "no hands")
2) I am a parent.
But that's where the correctness of your assumptions end.
3) It's been years since I've seen a girls soccer game (Sorry).
4) I've never seen a Twinsburg girls soccer game.
5) You can't find another post of mine referring to Twinsburg.
6) However, I was fortunate to have seen Medina boys soccer this year. Wow! The frenzied pace at which the play the game is mind-boggling! But that's off topic.
7) I never heard of this "12 player" situation until I saw the ohio.com article about the OHSAA's ruling on the day that I posted it.
8) I would assume that his topic was bandied about on this forum back in the fall, but I didn't even know about the situation so I'm late to the party. If I was a Twinsburg parent, I would have posted back then.
9) But if you want to call me a Twinsburg parent to belittle my statement, please feel free.
Here are my random thoughts.
1) With all the soccer I've watched, I've never seen another incident where a team had 12 players on the field. I've not even heard of it. Let alone the same team twice. And in the state semi-final??
2) It's hard to imagine HOW someone can inadvertently sub a 12th person into the game. The substitution procedure is a rather formal process. It's not like hockey where folks sub on the fly. And it's not like basketball where a team can break a huddle and accidentally have a 6th guy on the floor due to a non-communication between players subbing. So you'd almost have to do 12 players on purpose. I assume there's video on how it happened, but I'm not aware of the discussion of the video.
3) As infrequent as "12 players" is, the fact that the same team was reported TWICE?? Seriously?? How many OTHER teams have ever been reported?
ANALOGIES:
If you pick up pack of gum at the store and stick it in your pocket and get caught, you might say, "oh, it was an accident, I meant to pay for it, I stuck it in there when I was shopping for other stuff..."
If you get caught a second time, not only am I not buying the accident story, I'm now convinced that you've done it many more times where you weren't caught.
If you get caught cheating on a test a couple times, how many times have you NOT been caught?
It would be interesting to get access to a year's worth of Strongsville girls' soccer's close games and just see if it's happened where it wasn't caught.
The irony is that this ohio.com story seems like the OHSAA was WAY more concerned about the officials rather than the perpetrators.
Obviously the Strongsville team was a great team. Why would they need to resort to this?