Smitty Lanyards

Originally Posted by BryanV21

One of the varsity officials who was part of my mentoring crew didn't use a lanyard, and fellow officials would always give him crap about it. Just good-natured, although the one without the lanyard once dropped the whistle out of his mouth during a live ball.

Interesting. I was an observer to a locker room confrontation where my partner was reamed for not using a lanyard. The guy used phrases like "when you don't use a lanyard you are making it all about you", "the fans see that and it doesn't look good", "this isn't the NBA", and my personal favorite "the state uniform guidelines require a lanyard" (they don't).

[j51969]

Originally Posted by AremRed

Interesting. I was an observer to a locker room confrontation where my partner was reamed for not using a lanyard. The guy used phrases like "when you don't use a lanyard you are making it all about you", "the fans see that and it doesn't look good", "this isn't the NBA", and my personal favorite "the state uniform guidelines require a lanyard" (they don't).

Kinda silly isn't it. 98.3% of anyone in attendance wouldn't even notice. Only people who frequent forums like this would only notice. The use of no lanyard would be 650th on the list of why fans think we suck out there. Peronally he is probably just jealous he doesn't have the coordination to do it himself.

Originally Posted by j51969

Kinda silly isn't it.

Kinda silly indeed, along with the insistence of using the weaker NFHS block and PC signals, and pointing with four fingers closed together.

[j51969]

If I may...

These are a lot of times the same who offer good constructive criticism (Most times). No matter how long you have done this a second eye is always beneficial in striving for excellence. Then you stay and watch the first QTR of the V game. You notice similar inconsistencies and non-approved techniques. Extremely small (like the ones they mentioned to you), but still ever present. It is even better when one of these men are 30-40 pounds overweight. I am never going to tell someone that they are fat. But come on....if you need a system of belts, pulleys, and levers to hold in all your chubby's maybe me missing a lanyard shouldn't be the focus.

[Eastshire]

I don't (and likely never will) use a lanyard for soccer. I do (and likely always will) use a lanyard for basketball.

In soccer the whistle is in my hand 99.9% of the time (it really should be 100% but I sometimes will switch hands while holding it in my mouth). I'd worry about dropping it in basketball since it would be out of hand so often.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I tried the "noose" lanyard a couple of times but I switched to the "break away" lanyard after coaches were telling that I wasn't using the "noose" lanyard properly, .

As far as officials (NFHS, NCAA, FIBA, and NBA/WNBA) that do not use a lanyard at all, my opinion is this: It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

MTD, Sr.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

That's fine, just don't be a dickens to them.

[j51969]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I tried the "noose" lanyard a couple of times but I switched to the "break away" lanyard after coaches were telling that I wasn't using the "noose" lanyard properly, .

As far as officials (NFHS, NCAA, FIBA, and NBA/WNBA) that do not use a lanyard at all, my opinion is this: It looks sloppy as the dickens. And I do let partners that do not use a lanyard what my position is on the matter.

MTD, Sr.

Curious why so? My whistle go from my pocket to my mouth back to pocket. Sloppy is some string dangling from my shirt I have to keep shoving back into my mouth. I went through this with all my kids and thier binkies.