A Long Island high school football coach is getting yanked from the sideline for not putting his best players on it fast enough.

Plainedge High School head coach Rob Shaver has been suspended for one game under Nassau County’s “lopsided scores policy,” according to Newsday, after a 61-13 win over South Shore last Friday night. He is the first varsity coach to be punished by the rule, which has been in effect for three seasons and is aimed at discouraging teams from running up the score.

In the game between a pair of unbeaten teams, Plainedge entered the fourth quarter leading by 35 points, but Shaver apparently kept his top players in too long, to the distaste of the “lopsided score committee” — but not the opposing coach.

“I had no issue with how the game went,” South Side coach Phil Onesto told Newsday. “I had spoken to coach Shaver, I told him I had no issues.”

Per county rules, because Plainedge won by more than 42 points, Shaver had to explain how he tried to avoid running up the score. His reasoning was shot down, meaning he will miss the regular-season finale this Friday.

“They thought it was a mismanaged game, which my opinion is, that isn’t the rule,” Shaver told the newspaper. “It should be: You ran up the score on purpose. That’s what the intent of the rule is for.

“What made me the most upset, to be honest is, listen, if the South Side coach complained and said, ‘This guy definitely ran up the score on us,’ well, then they should investigate. Because that’s the intent of the rule. The spirit of the rule is to prevent better teams from running up on lesser programs and sportsmanship and dignity and all that stuff. I get it. That didn’t happen.”