Double whistle - sitch

[mick]

Originally posted by walter
Mick, the way I read it you did not give the block signal at the time. Your partner did give the player control signal. The whistles were simultaneous. If that's the case, I think you did the right thing for this situation. Got together, partner had signallled player control, play on. If neither signalled at the time then you could've gone either way based on your discussion. If both signal, double foul. That would have been your only choice. Remember the Iowa State NCAA tournament a couple of years back. A double whistle for the ages!!! The officials were right that night even though they didn't work another game after that. The signal at the time of a double whistle could kill ya!

Yeah, Walter,
The double whistle can kill.
This partner and I often double-whistle over the past several years and this is the first time, that I remember, one of us signaled without waiting.
Because I saw both acts, and because I was calling the first act, yes, we would have favored the other team had we both waited.
Ofttimes, we have a foul-then-violation, or a violation-then-foul, which is another double-whistle sitch in which an easy decision is made when one of us sees both actions.
mick