Remembering the AP

[Mark Padgett]

I keep a small roll of Tums in my front pocket and switch it from side to side when the arrow changes. It really comes in handy during the game when I get stomach aches from listening to coaches.

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick, but the female coaches were always drooling, so I stopped.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I keep a small roll of Tums in my front pocket and switch it from side to side when the arrow changes. It really comes in handy during the game when I get stomach aches from listening to coaches.

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick, but the female coaches were always drooling, so I stopped.

Mark, as I told you on Saturday, it wasn't drool. It was revulsion at your deformity!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Mark, as I told you on Saturday, it wasn't drool. It was revulsion at your deformity!

You're just jealous.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick,

Ah yes, the Ron Jeremy method of keeping track of the arrow.

Ron don't need no damn whistle.

[BillyMac]

When the alternating possession arrow started in 1985, the members of our local board knew that it would take some time for table crews to adjust to the new rule, so we were all asked to keep an extra whistle in our pocket to help keep track of the arrow. I personally thought that this would be a good idea until the schools got used to the new rule. Well, they're still "getting used to it". 99% of the time the crew at the table has the correct score, time, number of fouls, and bonus light on the scoreboard, yet after more than twenty-years, they only get the arrow at the table switched correctly about 90% of the time, so we're still being advised by our interpreter to keep that extra whistle in our pocket. We all do it, from our rookies to our best tournament officials. Why can't the crew at the table get this right almost all the time. Why should officials have to keep track of the arrow? We don't keep track of fouls. We trust the table crew to inform us when we're in the bonus or double bonus, or when a player fouls out. We don't keep track of time outs. We trust the table crew to inform us when a coach has used his last time out. Why is the alternating possession arrow so difficult, more than twenty years after its introduction?

[JRutledge]

The only people that seem to be having a lot of problems are people that are knew or younger students who are more concerned with answering their Blackberry rather than paying attention to the game. If you use that logic that the table is still not getting the arrow right, we might as well get rid of the scorebook because I do not see many of that being done correctly either.

Peace

[mj]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Ah yes, the Ron Jeremy method of keeping track of the arrow.

Ron don't need no damn whistle.

Or is it Jon Diebler?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mj

Or is it Jon Diebler?

Jon Diebler has been re-incarnated as a Ron Jeremy beefstick?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Jon Diebler has been re-incarnated as a Ron Jeremy beefstick?

Yes - and you can buy those at your local Diebler Farms shop. They're usually located in a mall between The Sharper Diebler and Diebler Shack.

There's also one located near here right next to Dieblers R Us.

[Bad Zebra]

I once worked with a vet who had a lanyard (looked like a Smitty) with a tiny, clear plastic sleeve on it. I asked him about it and he said he slid it (the tiny sleeve) up and down the lanyard to keep track of posession. I don't know if he bought it or created it himself, but I thought that was pretty clever. No way anyone else in the gym would know he had it...just moved it when he put the whistle in his mouth to inbound the ball. Has anyone else ever seen this?