Shot Clock Error

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Adam

We always have a whistle at the end of a quarter/half.

We don't. We only sound the whistle if there's something questionable, i.e. a try after the horn, near the end of the period.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

We don't. We only sound the whistle if there's something questionable, i.e. a try after the horn, near the end of the period.

Do you whistle in subs?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich

Do you whistle in subs?

Only if my partner (two person in old fashioned Connecticut) doesn't have a good angle to see the table and is about ready to administer and the timer is asleep at the switch at sounding the horn. We seldom, if ever, whistle in substitutes when the timer does his job and sounds the horn at the proper time. Usually it's just the "come hither" beckon signal, maybe with a "Sub" oral beckon.

[ODog]

Originally Posted by Rich

Do you whistle in subs?

I don't. I yell "Sub!" and beckon.

Back to the whistle to end a period, I don't think I've whistled the end of a period more than 5-10 times ever. We were taught it has no significance unless the horn fails to fire (or it's clear the players didn't respond to the horn).

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ODog

Unless the horn fails to fire.

You guys have pyrotechnics scoreboards? Cool.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by ODog

I don't. I yell "Sub!" and beckon.

Back to the whistle to end a period, I don't think I've whistled the end of a period more than 5-10 times ever. We were taught it has no significance unless the horn fails to fire (or it's clear the players didn't respond to the horn).

Fine if that's your local practice. The NFHS official's manual does say that we whistle in subs.

(No, Rut, you don't have to tell me that you don't follow the NFHS manual in Northeast Illinois.)

I watch a lot of JV games before my varsity games where the officials don't whistle in the subs. It just seems awkward without the whistle -- the official waves, the kid hesitates, the official waves again...personally, I can't imagine not using a whistle.

Back to the original thread. My hijack is over. Besides, didn't we go round and round on this topic a few years ago?

[ODog]

Originally Posted by Rich

The NFHS official's manual does say that we whistle in subs.

Sorry to keep the hijack going 1 tick longer, but I finally had time to look this up: There is no mention of a whistle in IAABO's Substitution Procedures and Guidelines, which explains why BillyMac and I, living in IAABO states as we do, don't practice this.

But I have no issue with it.