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I see there are strong feelings about this, but my personal feeling is that there is already one too many jump balls in a game. The opening tap is traditional, I know, but I remember that some states used to (maybe they still do) used a coin flip at the start of HS games to determine possession. It wouldn't make me cry if basketball went to this, but that won't ever happen universally.
Every time I work with a partner who wants to be the R, I let him. Every time a partner tells me to kill it if his toss isn't good -- I smile, nod, and then tell myself it would have to be behind one of the players before I'd blow it down. It's just a way to put the ball in play, and it's not even a good one.
Of course, if the jump ball was to return to NFHS play then the part about a jump ending when a ball hits a backboard would make sense again.
Rich
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