2 Handed Report of Foul

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

C'mon Mark Padgett. Now you're being irrational.

Off on a tangent.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by upanddown

I remember the days of uniform numbers with 6,7,8,9 in basketball. I was a kid then.. So I'm curious when and why the numbering on uniforms changed to only digits 0-5? And now 00 is excluded as a legal number. Is it for the one-handed reporter?

3-4-3d

d. Each team member shall be numbered on the front and back of the team jersey with plain Arabic numerals. The following numbers are legal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 00, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. A team member list shall not have both numbers 0 and 00.

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[OKREF]

Originally Posted by upanddown

We see it all the time with college and NBA and now high school officials (wanna be NCAA/NBA maybe?) using the same 2 handed signal for reporting players number to the table There was once a good reason for changing the number requirements on uniforms and I suspect it's where the One-Hand, one digit at a time signals began.

I remember the days of uniform numbers with 6,7,8,9 in basketball. I was a kid then.. So I'm curious when and why the numbering on uniforms changed to only digits 0-5? And now 00 is excluded as a legal number. Is it for the one-handed reporter? .

The reason is for one handed foul reporting. 00 is a legal number. In our state two handed mechanics is frowned upon by our association.

[Tio]

I just do what's in the book. They can't knock you down for following what is outlined in the offcial's manual.

In NCAA, I had a conference who wanted 2 hand and the rest wanted 1 hand. When in Rome......

[Smitty]

At my association's camp this past weekend, the UIL (Texas) director of officials told us that starting this next season (2013-2014) Texas will allow 2-handed reporting of numbers. It's not required, but whichever method the crew uses - they all have to use the same method, so it will be a part of pre-game to decide whether the crew will use 1-hand or 2-hand reporting of numbers. I like.

[Toren]

Originally Posted by Smitty

At my association's camp this past weekend, the UIL (Texas) director of officials told us that starting this next season (2013-2014) Texas will allow 2-handed reporting of numbers. It's not required, but whichever method the crew uses - they all have to use the same method, so it will be a part of pre-game to decide whether the crew will use 1-hand or 2-hand reporting of numbers. I like.

Every spring, summer and fall I go to two hand reporting. In the winter time, it takes me about 3 or 4 games to get back to 1 hand reporting. Trying to switch at the start of each game, while that sounds easy, you may find its harder than it sounds.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by Toren

Every spring, summer and fall I go to two hand reporting. In the winter time, it takes me about 3 or 4 games to get back to 1 hand reporting. Trying to switch at the start of each game, while that sounds easy, you may find its harder than it sounds.

I'm gonna guess that for all my varsity games (which is the vast majority), we will always use 2-hands. Half of the folks have been doing it that way anyway because many are college officials. For lower level games, I doubt anyone will care if there's a mismatch in how the crew reports. I've been using 2-hands all summer and I like it.

[JRutledge]

I have come around on the 2 hand reporting. I actually like it and did it during the season in my college games. Now I never get why people have to spend a lot of time adjusting as I did that all season. And every summer I do a lot of mechanics that are not NF and when the season starts it is just like riding a bike. And I have been doing all kinds of "college" or non-NF mechanics in the summer for years and never had a problem.

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