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Disclaimer: keep in mind not all states use NFHS mechanics from the Officials' Manual. Ours, and many others just happen to.
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But gee, Rut, denigrating what other states do and why they do it ("robotic...emulate a picture...too much time on their hands...nothing better to worry about...") = ![]() Aw, forget it.
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I have just never heard anyone care about something like this as you stated. Of course you will have people at camps tweak a mechanic or hand position, but not to the extent they follow the picture. I saw a guy yesterday in the prelim game give a hand check signal above his head, so that would get changed if that guy went to a camp I am sure. Actually the pictures have changed over the years and I almost never see a single official signal a bonus foul for example with hands straight across in the "Jesus" pose. Or I hardly ever see a "blocking" signal given with out "fists" at the bottom. I am sure there are officials or clinicians that worry about those things, but it is not that common. And if I am reading some of the other responses, I do not seem to be alone. And the places where people are making comments are certainly not from my state or region of the country. Not sure why saying that would upset you? Then again I guess we just have a different focus on what officiating is I guess. Peace
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It must be noted that this is not one of these things that is mentioned by the sports administrators that assign all the playoff games. And in basketball there are over 6000 officials (over 15,000 in all sports). We have two administrators, one for each gender and neither has ever claimed to have held someone back for these issues. Now do they have things that get them upset when we do not do them? Of course they do, but the biggest complaint we heard out of the IHSA office was not giving a preliminary signal at the spot of the foul. And it was claimed by many those assignors or clinicians that this was not something most cared about personally. We wanted people that could officiate and not get caught up in some mechanic that was not followed to the letter. And personally someone that has worked a State Final in two other sports, I never followed to the letter every mechanic or signal and still got to those levels as an official. A great example is in baseball the signal for a strike is basically the hammer signal. I have never done that and when I was in the State Finals, no one commented once about that I did not follow the mechanic. What they did want is for us to be positioned properly or to call things that were in our area or move to the proper area mechanically (which may have not been what is in the NF books since we do not use their mechanics). And no one commented once about what we did or did not do in football when I worked in the same capacity. Peace
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In my experience, deviating slightly is not nearly as bad as using college mechanics. One of our very best has been passed over repeatedly and told point blank he'll never advance to the state tourney as long as he uses college mechanics. Sad and silly...but thats the way it is.
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Something tells me Packerowner is in deep depression and I am sure he does not care about this topic anymore.
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Tuesday's basketball game can't get here fast enough, I was at the 2007 championship game and that was tough to take, but when you play that bad, I think you feel worse.
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