pregame dunk

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Raymond

I've gone almost 20 years without sounding my whistle nor seeing anyone else sound their whistle. The 3-4 times I've been involved in games where players were T'd for dunking (including one D1 game before the rule change), the players were well aware officials were standing right there on the sidelines.

Now we need to announce ourselves with whistles all of a sudden?

Well, the ultimate problem is that there is a rule that is clear and the coaches for some dumb reason never address it. So you see officials do all kinds of things to not have to call a T anyway they can. I am in support of all of it personally if it gets you over. Part of it too is that even when you see it, we have to argue about it with someone. Either the coach that saw it on the other team or the coach of the team that did it.

I had to call it at the beginning of the season last year. I did not personally see it, but I heard it for sure. And it took the next 5 minutes to tell the coach he had to sit down and he wanted me to "give him a break."

I am good with whatever people want to do here and I have done both. In some situations, if I do not do it that way we will have multiple Ts because silly coaches never address this with their teams.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... he wanted me to "give him a break."

Arm, leg, or neck?

[SNIPERBBB]

Working with a guy the other day that reported a story to me about a crew that Td up a kid for pregame dunking. Problem was they were in the locker room and someone part of either the coaching or game admin staff came in with video of said dunking. They went out and issued the T based on the video.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

Working with a guy the other day that reported a story to me about a crew that Td up a kid for pregame dunking. Problem wax they were in the locker room and someone part of either the coaching or game admin staff came in with video of said dunking. They went out and issued the T based on the video.

I've got an opposite story about a crew that exited to the locker room after a game, well outside the visual confines of the court, and were convinced by a coach and athletic director to come back out to the the gym to fix a scoring error that, in the end, overturned the result of the game. One of the officials was a guy that I often worked with and I considered him to be a very good official, who's day job was that of a highly respected attorney, so he was not a stupid person. I felt bad for him, the newspaper story named him and the story made all the large statewide newspapers, not just the local newspaper.

[SNIPERBBB]

That's why it's good practice in the final minute of a close game during timeouts to go over and try to head off a potential issue. Especially if you've had some odd sequences that could of led to scoring confusion.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

That's why it's good practice in the final minute of a close game during timeouts to go over and try to head off a potential issue.

Unless it's forty-point blowout, great advice.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Unless it's forty-point blowout, great advice.

That's why he said "close game" in his post. It's something I've been doing for years, even when I'm not the 'R'.