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[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by brandan89

What happened to Chuck Elias???

Nothing, Brandon. Don't let these clowns kid you.

A Fond Farewell

I still post all the time in the annual baseball thread. Glad to see you back on the forum!

[CLH]

Just my opinion, but this may be the dumbest product ever thunked up. But, I'm sure someone will buy it. Personally, I will not. This thing just looks stupid, and how stupid are you going to look, checking out your whistle on every jump ball. If you can't remember the possession arrow, try carrying a whistle or a dime in your pants pocket. But, if you really want to be a more than just a warm body in a striped shirt, learn to remember the arrow.

CLH

[refnrev]

B,
You buy this and some of your cajun friends are going to be asking "Who Dat?" and "What Dat?" when they see you using it!

[ernesto5]

I am the maker of the Possession Switch. I am not an official, but was a basketball coach for 15+ years. I started at the high school level and finished at the NCAA Division III level. I developed the possession switch in response to alternating possession management problems I experienced. My hopes were to place a mechnaical device in the Officials control that would allow them to assist in the accurate administration of alternating possession. The mechanical device had to be extremely easy to operate, reliable, professional, and visible to the participates of the game. Is all the switch is is a mechanical device. There needs to be a habit developed around the use of the device for it to be successful. That is true of any mechanical device!!!

There seems to be a lot of support of this board for memory management of alternating possession. That seems to be the only acceptable manor is which to adminster alternating possession. Along time ago business and industry found out that mechanical devices worked much better than memory. Microsoft Outlook is better than your memory, your cellphones that store telephone numbers works much better than your memory, a mathmatical calulator works better than memory, an address book works better than memory, and on, and on, and on, and on. I would guess that the quality of the folks working on the table have a lot more to do with successful alternating possession management than memory does.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ernesto5

There seems to be a lot of support of this board for memory management of alternating possession. That seems to be the only acceptable manor is which to adminster alternating possession.

I would guess that the quality of the folks working on the table have a lot more to do with successful alternating possession management than memory does.

That's exactly right. It is the job of the SCORER to administer alternating possessions. Now tell us why you expect us to do the job of those people on the table.

You don't seem to understand the concept. Again, it is the job of the SCORER to keep track of the arrow. Says so right in the rule book. Really. You should be trying to convince SCORERS to buy your little device, not us officials.

On second thought, SCORERS already have their own little device, don't they? It's called the arrow.

[ernesto5]

First of all, your probable a Div. I official, and if you are you don't need it in the regular season. You have great people at the scorers table.

But back to the discussion. Your the one responsible for the game, so when the table makes a mistake you have to fix it. And the question is, is a mechanical device operated correctly better than the memory? I think it is!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ernesto5

Your the one responsible for the game, so when the table makes a mistake you have to fix it. And the question is, is a mechanical device operated correctly better than the memory? I think it is!

To repeat, I'm responsible for the game but the SCORER is responsible for the arrow. Let them buy one of these from you. What next? A miniature scoresheet so that the oncourt official can keep track of the score also in case there is a mistake?

I can't agree with you. I think that any official tinkering with a gadget like yours is simply unprofessional. It just ain't that hard for any official to keep track of the arrow in their head.

Good luck to you. Personally though I'd never recommend your little gadget to anyone and I'd also recommend to the officials in my association that they keep away from it and anything like it. JMO.

PS- btw...what about your gadget screwing up the sound of a FOX40 whistle? Comments on that?

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by ernesto5

First of all, your probable a Div. I official, and if you are you don't need it in the regular season. You have great people at the scorers table.

But back to the discussion. Your the one responsible for the game, so when the table makes a mistake you have to fix it. And the question is, is a mechanical device operated correctly better than the memory? I think it is!

What's next then?
Isn't a stopwatch better than a "one-mississippi"?
There ya go, a stop watch for all 3,5 and 10 second violations.
No, wait, that's for MLB....

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by ernesto5

Is all the switch is is a mechanical device.

Huh? Is is is what???