Gray officiating shirts.
 

I am conducting an informal poll:

I would like to know what states allow basketball officiating crews to wear the gray shirt (with the black pin stripes)?

Thanks.

Missouri does not allow it, or at least I have never heard of anyone wearing gray here.

Texas switched to gray full-time beginning with the 2011-12 season.

Vermont uses the grays. In the postseason though all officials wear the stripes.

That's it
 

Here in Maine, it's all we're allowed to wear.

The Land Of Steady Habits ...
 

Connecticut: No gray jerseys allowed. We used to wear white jerseys with black stripes, now we have to wear black jerseys with white stripes. I think that we were all tricked by IAABO into buying new jerseys. Really? What's the big difference?

What ever happened to those gray IAABO jerseys with the blue Byron collar, and blue piping on the sleeves. The looked so cool with blue pants. That's right. Blue pants. With a belt. That's right. I said it. With a belt. Wanna fight about it?

Washington: Gray/pinstripes is the official uniform shirt. Many officials prefer the black/white stripes, and (in our Association, anyway) it's informally the Referee's choice. When I'm the R, I ask my partners, since I don't care one way or the other. This year I think I wore my grays all of twice before the postseason.

The state doesn't seem to mind this until Regionals & State, when the grays are explicitly required.

In NC, grays are not allowed, they are required.

Gray is the official uni in FL.

Colorado: Grays are allowed until playoffs, then only stripes.( black on white or vice versa)...

We usually wear grays for V games in our association.

Grays allowed in NH during season but not playoffs

Not allowed in NV or northern CA.

Not everywhere. There are at least two chapters in the Houston area that only wear grey for varsity games.

Misty Water Color Memories ...
 

I forgot about the blue stretch band on the bottom of the jersey. Proper uniform etiquette was to wear the jersey untucked.

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.49084...36882&pid=15.1

Man. We looked cool in these. This uniform was a real chick magnet. Hot, single, Moms would wait for us outside the locker room. We were treated like rock stars. Rock stars, I tell you.

In VA we use ye ole black and white stripes.

I have seen the grays used for AAU and other leagues, but nothing scholastic related in my experience.

Yet VA is going to a "new"..old shirt:rolleyes:

Missouri and Kansas (MSHSAA and KSHSAA) require b/w stripes and black pants. Now, if they'd only outlaw pants with belt loops and belts.

Then you couldn't work in a small state in the north east! :p

Don't get me started! :mad:

Monetary cost aside, I'm actually a fan of the shirts.

Same for Dallas. Varsity only, with the exception if you work a JV/V doubleheader you wear the grey for both.

I've just seen the photos. So, I'll reserve judgement on that aspect......

I've seen it in person which helped convince it that it wasn't that bad.

Just be glad you don't do football. You'd be stuck with a collar to compound the ugliness...

wyoming
 

Wyo allows the grays, but very few use them...I don't even put them in the bag anymore

I like the collared look for football. The old school collared look in hoops is hilarious though.

Maybe I'll do a collar with belted, faded black dockers and white socks for church hoops league sometime. That'd be a hoot.

In Maryland we can, in West Virginia, we can not.

Save it for the varsity church league games.

Perfect!

Old school black and white in South Dakota. I'd love to see us go to the greys !!! :):):)

JUCO level stopped using the greys, not sure what is still the appeal anymore, but to be different. I never felt they looked that good in the first place.

We cannot wear them here and I am happy about that fact.

Peace

Don't get you know who started......he has nothing else to do this time of the year, except his comic routine.....:eek::eek::eek:

Saw a couple guys with some serious man boobs use these shirts this year and you could see them sweat through the shirt !!!!!!

It looked pretty bad !!!!! :(:(:(

What do you mean "this time of year?"

Was tryin to give him the benefit of the doubt....:D:D:D

Maybe he will listen to Jose Carrion a bit and change up his game or at least his uniform !!!!!

The triumph of hope over experience....

Give Us The Wretched Refuse Of Your Teeming Shore ...
 

Yes he could. Here in the Provisions State, we're an equal opportunity employer. All genders, races, ethnic groups, nationalities, religions, and sexual identity groups, can officiate. You can wear beltless slacks, or you can wear belted slacks, as long as the belt is black. You can wear flat pants, or pleated pants, as long as they're black. You can be bald, balding, or have a full head of hair. You can wear plain leather shoes, or patent leather shoes, as long as they're all black. You can be tall, short, or anywhere in between. You can use a Smitty lanyard, a noose lanyard, or no lanyard, as long as you use a Fox 40 whistle, or something that sounds similar. Yes, we do have a very liberal uniform policy here, but hey, Connecticut is often described as the bluest state in the Union.

Just one thing. It's kind of important. You have to be able to officiate basketball. If not, we will discriminate against you.

And don't even think about showing up for a high school game with a college jacket.

Here in Montana we can wear both, however I wore my grey once for varsity in two years.

Gray shirts are not allowed in high school games (by either the boy's association or the girl's union) in Iowa, but they are required for junior college games.

Thanks for the input.
 

Thanks everybody who replied and a special thanks to BillyMac for his historical input to the thread.

MTD, Sr.

Thankfully, WI allows exactly one shirt. Stripes. I've seen people sweat through the grays and that looks terrible.

Wide stripes? I'd like to see them on me before I pass judgement. I like how they look when I wear them for football.

In Ontario it varies by local association. Some wear stripes, some wear greys ( plain, without the pin stripes) and some wear the FIBA shirt.

Don't Leave Us Hangnig ...
 

C'mon Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. You must have an old photo somewhere, maybe up in your attic, of you wearing a gray IAABO jersey, with a blue Byron collar, blue piping on the sleeves, and a blue stretch band on the bottom of the jersey. You can share it with us. We promise not to laugh. Well, at least I promise not to laugh. Also, IAABO is ninety years old. So what was it like to officiate back when IAABO was in it's infancy?

That's the only jacket I've used at HS games over the last several years. I got a "new" CCA jacket the year before they went to the striped sleeves and just overlayed the state patch when we changed state orgs a few years back. First year was simply a safety pin job.