Basic lightweight pregame jacket recommendations...?

[ODog]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

Maybe I'm too new school.... the current and old ref jackets are just that... Old, ugly, hot....

Same one my dad wore in the 1980s...

I'd love to have some type of jacket I'd actually wear outside a gym.

My thoughts exactly! Have our prayers been answered with this one?
https://www.purchaseofficials.com/cg...&category=3131

If you click back from that page, it's apparently been approved in Ohio and is offered with an OHSAA patch. They are also offering an Illinois-patched version, though not saying anything about whether it's been "approved."

This needs to catch on NOW! Has anyone else seen these in use in other states?

I know there will be pushback to keep the corny old jackets, but these are also less expensive somehow!

OK, OK, I know I'm probably a little too excited

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by ODog

My thoughts exactly! Have our prayers been answered with this one?
https://www.purchaseofficials.com/cg...&category=3131

If you click back from that page, it's apparently been approved in Ohio and is offered with an OHSAA patch. They are also offering an Illinois-patched version, though not saying anything about whether it's been "approved."

This needs to catch on NOW! Has anyone else seen these in use in other states?

I know there will be pushback to keep the corny old jackets, but these are also less expensive somehow!

OK, OK, I know I'm probably a little too excited

I do not know who came up with the stand up collar design but I do not care for it.

The Smitty Zip Front Jacket is what Mark, Jr., and I wear. We each have an OhioHSAA logo jacket and an IAABO logo jacket in that style. And back when I still worked college ball I had that the Smitty style jacket with the CCA logo. I retired from college ball just a the style of jackets that are being worn know we the required jackets.

MTD, Sr.

[ODog]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I do not know who came up with the stand up collar design but I do not care for it.

The Smitty Zip Front Jacket is what Mark, Jr., and I wear. We each have an OhioHSAA logo jacket and an IAABO logo jacket in that style.

So I'm assuming a few officials in your association are already wearing these standup-collar jackets, or will this be the first season?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by ODog

So I'm assuming a few officials in your association are already wearing these standup-collar jackets, or will this be the first season?

The OhioHSAA mandates that basketball warmup jackets shall have be black with the embroidered OhioHSAA logo. There are only two websites that are allowed to sell the jackets and both carry the Smitty jackets, including the high collar jacket.

MTD, Sr.