[devil58]

Untucked jerseys make no difference in the game. It's not even that big of a deal, so if a player wants his jersey to be untucked, more power to him.

Spoken like a true high school kid who thinks they have the world all figured out...

What's wrong with conforming to rules?? As many of us, who have been around for more than 1 decade can attest, there are many rules "out there" that in the grand scheme of things might seem to us to be no big deal...However, if we do not want to pay the consequences for not following them we go along with them...We make the choice to do the right thing...Learn that lesson now and life will be a lot easier for you...

Tucked in IS the rule regardless of what may have been stated earlier in this thread...The fact that there are refs out there in certain regions who choose not to enforce it does not make it any less of a rule than goaltending or a 3 second violation...I know many referees who try to avoid ever calling a 3 second violation...Doesn't make it any less of a rule...I attend state rules meetings annually, in multiple sports, both as an official and coach and can assure you that tucking a jersey in is not intended to be enforced at the discretion of the referee...

Now, I'm not going to say I necessarily disagree that tucked or untucked has any real bearing on the outcome of a game...It really doesn't...It becomes a respect of the game issue...High school athletics holds itself to a higher standard than a pickup game at the Y or even AAU basketball...Hold yourself to that higher standard...If you are lucky or good enough to play at the next level and beyond you better get used to tucking them in now because even the guys who get paid millions of dollars to play tuck them in...