crowd whistle

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Welpe

[Agitator]T up the crowd.[/Agitator]

And one to the home team for failing to control the crowd.

[Ignats75]

Say it sounds like the whistle came from the bench areas so T up both benches. That way the coaches have to sit down and shut up.

[Camron Rust]

Had a "similar" event last night....

A3 has the ball in the corner and starts to drive along the endline.....

Something that sounds like a odd whistle sounds. I'm puzzled, my partner is puzzled, the players react.....1/2 of them stop playing. The shooter takes another dribble or two and pulls up with a lazy toss at the basket. B rebounds that ball.

It was the fire alarm.

Hmm......what to do. The ball isn't technically dead but it did resemble a whistle and the players reacted as if it was.

We declared the ball dead at the time of the sound and gave it back to A where they were when the sound occurred.

B wasn't too happy about it.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

It was the fire alarm.

Use an assistant coach to smother the flames.

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by just another ref

Use an assistant coach to smother the flames.

Why am I drinking coffee while reading this board today? That's a good use for an assistant.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

There is a private school just across the state line in that State Up North. We officials referred to it as an outlaw school because it did not belong to the MichiganHSAA and therefore could do just about anything is pleased and its Prinicpal/Athletic Director could be (no wait, he was) a real horse's a$$ (wait, that is insulting to the horse my wife and I owned for the first 15 years we were married), but I digress.

Years and years ago, I was officiating a game in the school's Christmas Tournament between a school from Pennsylvania and a school of Indiana. Mid-way through the second quarter Team I's PG was CG while dribbling the ball at tjhe top of the key in their front court (I was T Table Side), when a whistle sounded from behind me in the direction of Team I's Bench. At the sound of the whistle all of Team P's players stopped and Team I's PG blew by his defender and I immediately blew the ball dead. I-HC immediately wanted to know why I blew the ball dead. I told him that a whistle from the stands sounded and that put Team P's players at a disadvantge. He then he tells me that the whistle sound was made by him (one finger from each hand in his mouth) to signal which play for his players to run and that he does it all of the time. My immediate response: WHACK!!!

MTD, Sr.