Smitty Lanyards

Eastshire

I don't (and likely never will) use a lanyard for soccer. I do (and likely always will) use a lanyard for basketball.

In soccer the whistle is in my hand 99.9% of the time (it really should be 100% but I sometimes will switch hands while holding it in my mouth). I'd worry about dropping it in basketball since it would be out of hand so often.

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I tried the "noose" lanyard a couple of times but I switched to the "break away" lanyard after coaches were telling that I wasn't using the "noose" lanyard properly, 😛.

As far as officials (NFHS, NCAA, FIBA, and NBA/WNBA) that do not use a lanyard at all, my opinion is this: It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

MTD, Sr.

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Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. wrote
It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

That's fine, just don't be a dickens to them.

BillyMac

j51969 wrote
I use no lanyard at all and have saved myself 10's of dollars over the years as a result

So you're a tenonaire?

j51969

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. wrote
I tried the "noose" lanyard a couple of times but I switched to the "break away" lanyard after coaches were telling that I wasn't using the "noose" lanyard properly, 😛.

As far as officials (NFHS, NCAA, FIBA, and NBA/WNBA) that do not use a lanyard at all, my opinion is this: It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

MTD, Sr.

Curious why so? My whistle go from my pocket to my mouth back to pocket. Sloppy is some string dangling from my shirt I have to keep shoving back into my mouth. I went through this with all my kids and thier binkies.

APG

j51969 wrote
Curious why so? My whistle go from my pocket to my mouth back to pocket. Sloppy is some string dangling from my shirt I have to keep shoving back into my mouth. I went through this with all my kids and thier binkies.

I've always been told that if you go sans lanyard, then you should be able to do all signals w/o having to put the whistle in your pocket.

j51969

APG wrote
I've always been told that if you go sans lanyard, then you should be able to do all signals w/o having to put the whistle in your pocket.

I don't get it why would that matter? There are guys who use lanyards that can't do all the signals.😃

APG

j51969 wrote
I don't get it why would that matter? There are guys who use lanyards that can't do all the signals.😃

It looks better and smoother than always having to reach into your pocket while reporting.

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j51969 wrote
I don't get it why would that matter? There are guys who use lanyards that can't do all the signals.😃

Don't listen to APG. Joey puts it in his pocket so can you! In fact, you should emulate everything Joey Crawford does.

APG

AremRed wrote
Don't listen to APG. Joey puts it in his pocket so can you! In fact, you should emulate everything Joey Crawford does.

Joe is the only guy I can think of, off the top of my head, that regularly does this...everyone else...and especially the newer officials don't...but Joe Crawford is...well Joe Crawford, and can do what he wants. 😉

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