Ball Inflation and the Rebound Height Standard

[Rich]

Originally Posted by AremRed

Surprised this spam post hasn't been deleted yet.

Much easier and much more fun to mock it.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by APG

This is a nearly 9 year old thread. Please don't revive old threads.

Well, I can always be "in before the lock" so I'll post two last thoughts.

(1) If you are thinking about having one of those game ball measurers as an official....don't, unless you want to be seen as a Poindexter without one shred of common sense.

(2) Bob's 80% estimate is probably a bit on the low side. I take air out almost every night. Maybe it was 80% back in 2006. I can't remember that far back.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Yep that's exactly how you check inflation on footballs.

I'm picturing the typical HS football official bouncing a ball and seeing if it bounces 49 to 54 inches...and then chasing it down and doing it again. For some reason this has me (literally) LOL.

I'm almost ready to sell my latest officiating innovation -- it's a 6-foot-long stick that officials can carry on the floor to use in those tricky closely-guarded situations.

Originally Posted by APG

This is a nearly 9 year old thread. Please don't revive old threads.

Normally, I'd agree. But the ball-inflation tool wouldn't have been posted otherwise and, well, it's made my day.

I'm tempted to buy a few as gag gifts for my association banquet. And then act like they are serious tools no official should be without.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by Rich

it's a 6-foot-long stick

Now I'm LOLing at your 6-foot long stick that you bring to your games...and everywhere else, I assume.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Now I'm LOLing at your 6-foot long stick that you bring to your games...and everywhere else, I assume.

I use it as a belt (but only in Connecticut).

It wouldn't be gentlemanly to let it drag on the ground.

[JRutledge]

Why do we care if a topic is being brought up that is years old?

That being said, this is not something I would think I would use anyway. It would draw more attention than needed.

Peace

[VaTerp]

Had a situation last night that made me think of this thread, not realizing that it started 8-9 years ago.

Had a GV game last night and for the first time I can ever remember the designated game ball did not even have close to enough pressure. Did the common drop/elbow test and the ball was well short. When holding the ball with two hands and applying pressure with my thumbs I could rather easily indent the ball. I ask for another ball from the guy standing over the cart of ball standing behind the table. He starts feeling all of the balls and I'm surprised that it takes him so long to give me one. The one he ends up handing me is also flat. We get another one. This one too, is underinflated but good enough to go with. The guy jokes that, "we got them from New England."

Toss it up, start the game, and mid way through the 1st quarter I see that the home team has several relatively good perimeter shooters. Several players from both teams hit jump shots that got "shooters rolls."

At this point, I realize that its not an accident that all of the balls are way underinflated. In the end, I didn't care and 99% of the time the issue is with an overinflated ball not the other way around. It was just interesting given all the recent attention to PSI in the NFL. So that's my cool story for the day. Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience or something that's risen to the level of an issue.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Years ago in an AAU Boys' National Championship pool play game, the HC of one team thought the ball was too "dead" to dribble, and I told him that he should want the ball that way because it would make his players pass the ball instead of dribble it. He agreed and had no more complaints about the ball.

MTD, Sr.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

Had a situation last night that made me think of this thread, not realizing that it started 8-9 years ago.

Had a GV game last night and for the first time I can ever remember the designated game ball did not even have close to enough pressure. Did the common drop/elbow test and the ball was well short. When holding the ball with two hands and applying pressure with my thumbs I could rather easily indent the ball. I ask for another ball from the guy standing over the cart of ball standing behind the table. He starts feeling all of the balls and I'm surprised that it takes him so long to give me one. The one he ends up handing me is also flat. We get another one. This one too, is underinflated but good enough to go with. The guy jokes that, "we got them from New England."

Toss it up, start the game, and mid way through the 1st quarter I see that the home team has several relatively good perimeter shooters. Several players from both teams hit jump shots that got "shooters rolls."

At this point, I realize that its not an accident that all of the balls are way underinflated. In the end, I didn't care and 99% of the time the issue is with an overinflated ball not the other way around. It was just interesting given all the recent attention to PSI in the NFL. So that's my cool story for the day. Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience or something that's risen to the level of an issue.

Smart coach

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

Had a situation last night that made me think of this thread, not realizing that it started 8-9 years ago.

Had a GV game last night and for the first time I can ever remember the designated game ball did not even have close to enough pressure. Did the common drop/elbow test and the ball was well short. When holding the ball with two hands and applying pressure with my thumbs I could rather easily indent the ball. I ask for another ball from the guy standing over the cart of ball standing behind the table. He starts feeling all of the balls and I'm surprised that it takes him so long to give me one. The one he ends up handing me is also flat. We get another one. This one too, is underinflated but good enough to go with. The guy jokes that, "we got them from New England."

Toss it up, start the game, and mid way through the 1st quarter I see that the home team has several relatively good perimeter shooters. Several players from both teams hit jump shots that got "shooters rolls."

At this point, I realize that its not an accident that all of the balls are way underinflated. In the end, I didn't care and 99% of the time the issue is with an overinflated ball not the other way around. It was just interesting given all the recent attention to PSI in the NFL. So that's my cool story for the day. Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience or something that's risen to the level of an issue.

Last night, I was working a JV tourney game. Standing near the coach during some free throws, early 4th quarter, and his team is trailing by 3. He says, "Maybe we can have an exciting finish, like last night's Super Bowl." I reply, "Well, if it comes down to that, you better run it in -- don't pass!!"

His team ended up losing by about a dozen.