Calling All Table Officials
 

Since a good number of them frequent this discussion board . . .
QUIT PUTTING THE NEW TEAM FOUL ON THE BOARD BEFORE WE REPORT THE FOUL!!! Yeah, I AM shouting! :mad:
For about the fifth time this year we almost had a correctable error situation because, after whistling the foul and noting the sixth team foul tally on the board before reporting the foul to the table, we proceed to begin a one-and-one administration. Horn sounds to stop us and inform us that that was only the sixth team foul.
Table officials out there, spread it around. Please wait until after we report the foul to change or announce the new team foul tally. If it's five or nine team fouls, it's five or nine team fouls until we notify you that the next team foul has occurred.
Oh, and tell your announcer buddies to follow the same protocol. They're usually right there by you.
The best correctable error is one that is avoided.
There. I feel better.

How bout we ask the mods to give them their own section? :p Probably draw more activity than Swimming and Track & Field. Darn good chance it would be pretty entertaining to look in on.

Such a Time as This!
 

+1 . . . but not until they all see the above rant.

Maybe they could make it a 'sticky'.

I always wait until the reporting official reports the foul to post the foul on the scoreboard.

I'll go as far as signaling bonus/double bonus after the reporting official reports it.

According to NCAA rule book (Art 2-11), Scorekeeper is supposed to signal nearest official for bonus. Why would a referee tried to decipher the scoreboard?

I'm meaning high school, not college, so a bit of a difference in rules.

From what I have noticed in NCAA rules, there's only one scorer, compared to 2 in HS.

How is the rule different under NFHS?

2-11
The scorer shall:
Art. 10...Signal in each half when a player commits a common foul beginning with his/her team's seventh and 10th foul.

However, the timer is not supposed to signal bonus/double bonus.

I was meaning as a timer I'll signal.

Unfortunately, in my neck of the woods no one seems to really study the rules/regulations that works table, nor do they do what is recommended in Appendix IV in the Officials' Manual.

And that's frustrating, isn't it?

I don't get your point. Leeball showed the rule that said the scorer is suppose to signal the official when a team reaches the bonus. He asked why an official would try to decipher the board when the scorer is suppose to inform him. Then you said something about a rules difference. :confused:

What's the difference in rules?

Basically the obvious: bigger court, men having the different 3-pt. line, timing regulations, table setup, officials' mechanics.

Anything else I'm missing?

What are you talking about?! :confused: You implied there was a rules difference in the duties of the timer in NFHS and NCAA.

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