[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Agree on many levels. I don't officiate any college games, but I would hope that the table crew would do a much better job at keeping track of the alternating possession arrow than the high school table crews that I work with. Almost all that I work with rely on the actual arrow, and don't keep track of alternating possession in the scorebook. When a question comes up about the alternating possession arrow, and you ask the high school table crews that I work with when the last alternating possession arrow occurred, they look at you like you're speaking Greek. Also, this seems to be one of those, "When in Rome", issues. On my local board, we teach our rookies to use a whistle in their pocket, and all officials, including veteran officials, are expected to keep this whistle as a backup to the table arrow, in all games.

I make sure that the scorer is keeping track of the AP when I have my pre-game.