[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Some of us have been instructed to do so at summer camps. The assignors and evaluators desire a verbal as well as your physical mechanic. They don't like calls being made in silence. The feeling is that it doesn't convey strength.

If an evaluator advises you to say "charge" or "block" or "Player Control" or "Team Control", I do not have a problem with that, BUT, I do have a problem with saying "offensive" because there is no such animal. But as an evaluator, it does not bother me one way or the other if the calling official does or does not say "charge" or "block" or "Player Control" or "Team Control" while signaling, because the signal says it all. To me it is just another evaluator trying to micro-manage his officials instead of knowing what is and is not in the Mechanics Manual.

MTD, Sr.