Is this appreciated, or not (this is in line with "thats not my call"

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by TravelinMan


I think you should use whatever you feel makes your job easier and improves your perfomance. If you find that helps, continue doing it and ignore sarcastic remarks from other officials in this forum. Quite a number of experienced HS varsity officials use the coin in the pocket.

I do not know any experienced veteran, respected officials that use a coin. For one, you see an official constantly going in and out of their pocket. That just looks terrible. You can always do what you want, but if you cannot remember something that happens less than 10 times in a game, I wonder what else you are not focused on? And what if you forget to move your coin? Are you going to rely solely on where you have the coin? It seems to me if you cannot remember who last got the ball, you might forget where the coin or whistle is in your pocket as well. The reason why you should be focused on the game to remember such things.

But then again, you can always do what you feel. But when I instruct officials, I never tell them to use those things. Because I have known several guys that forget to move the coin or whatever device that "helps" them remember the possession arrow. And the officials that are into the game are the ones that save our butts.

Peace