Come on! He's JIM BURR!!! He can do anything he wants!

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When this happened to me, I just worked the clip at the end of the lanyard into the stitches at the base of the black neckline fabric. It stayed fine until I could get the thing home, and stitch the loop back into place.

I've haven't had the oppertunity to meet Ron yet, but they showed a video about him in business class, and the Fox 40 story on the website is the same as what he said in this video. I think now he's working as an NBA evaluator, and is looking for a Canadian to be the next NBA official.

Yes, in Toronto and Detroit from what I hear.

He's had quite the officiating career.

If i was done school, i'd probably try for that NBA carreer, but i'm too young now.

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Many NBA officials work sans lanyard all the time. Some tuck the whistle in their waistline when it isn't in their mouth. Steve Javie comes to mind.

I saw him earlier in the year on a 10 second count. He indicated on his fingers, where he was in the count. I wondered if that was a new mechanic. When I didn't see anyone else do it, your remark entered my mind.

How do they hook the Precision timing to their whistle if they work without the lanyard??

The NBA version has two mics that clip to the shirt collar, instead of one mic the clips to the lanyard.

That makes sense. So they don't have a mic clipped to there whistle at all when they wear the lanyard??

Interesting - the versions I've worked with had a microphone with a range of less than 2cm. (One ref's mic literally slipped that much and the system wouldn't register the whistle.) My guess is that it still doesn't have a great range, but I'd still be worried about a Fox40 in the stands.

One of my goals, is sometime in my officiating career to work a game using precision timing

Some states allow them for HS regular season and/or state tourney use (NC comes to mind). Of course, a nice ACC or NBA game wouldn't be too bad.

I was watching one crew at the intramural tourney this past weekend, and noticed one official with the PT lanyard. I was shocked, and asked if he used PT - he said he had at the high school level. I was about to get real jealous of his college's intramural program.

None of the high schools in my area have precision timing. And i don't think any of the universities do either.

Although i know they tried it once for a football game in my city's stadium. But i don't think they've been used since that one game.

How'd they adopt it for football? Only thing I can think of is using an "on/off" pushbutton switch instead of whistle control - too many dead ball whistles where the clock stays running in football.