I wish NFHS mechanics indicated...

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I think the main issue in HS (which includes JV and Freshman) is that you have many scorekeepers and likely many officials that just will not get it right. You'll have some number of officials that will put the 10's number on their left hand because that is how they see it. Sometimes, you'll have scorekeepers that are barely paying attention since it is someone they could talk into doing the lower level game. I'm not against 2-hand reporting at the levels where everyone is going to be up to speed but doing it across the board is just going to create situations that can be avoided.

I think this is the key (as well as BNR's comments). Having been a clinician with my state for almost 10 years now, I can tell you that it is hard some times to get officials to even get simple things right like how you stop the clock and we are going to expect they will be able to accurately report a foul with both hands at the freshman level? And that does not include the fact that at the freshman level, we are lucky (at least in this area) to get an adult run the table. Instead we have a student who is more concerned with their phone than actually paying attention to us when reporting. I wish I had a dollar every time I try to report in any game and have the table not paying attention to me when reporting the foul. This is more of a problem at the lower levels because the table person thinks they know who the foul is on. Many times they are right, other times they are not.

Peace