"blarge call" high school

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Welpe

... whistle and signal you don't even hear or see.

That's the absolute worst situation with a double whistle. I've had a couple of these over the years. I don't hear my partner's whistle. I sell my call with a strong preliminary signal, and all of a sudden, as the players part like the Red Sea, I see my partner also giving a preliminary signal. Luckily, we've always had the same signal. Someday the signals won't be the same. We could pregame the heck out of this situation, but the bottom line would be that we would have go to the caseplay.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

That's the absolute worst situation with a double whistle. I've had a couple of these over the years. I don't hear my partner's whistle. I sell my call with a strong preliminary signal, and all of a sudden, as the players part like the Red Sea, I see my partner also giving a preliminary signal. Luckily, we've always had the same signal. Someday the signals won't be the same. We could pregame the heck out of this situation, but the bottom line would be that we would have go to the caseplay.

A few years ago, I had one like this, except we both reported without the other's knowledge.

I was C, table side, and A1 charges into B1 just outside the paint on my side, right along the endline. I ship it the other way. Neither of us heard the other's whistle, and he came out from L, opposite, and reported as I was turning around to report from within a few feet of my C position.

We got lucky, in that we both reported the same foul. Only later did our third come up and inform us that we had both reported that foul.

[just another ref]

Only one I ever had, partner and I had opposite signals. I didn't see his, but he saw mine. He dropped his hands and walked away. Coach saw it and asked him: "What did y'all do, flip a coin?" Partner explained that it was my call. End of discussion.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

That's the absolute worst situation with a double whistle. I've had a couple of these over the years. I don't hear my partner's whistle. I sell my call with a strong preliminary signal, and all of a sudden, as the players part like the Red Sea, I see my partner also giving a preliminary signal. Luckily, we've always had the same signal. Someday the signals won't be the same. We could pregame the heck out of this situation, but the bottom line would be that we would have go to the caseplay.

We had this happen in a game last week in a packed gym. Shooting foul, ball goes in, I'm the C, and the foul is from my side on a player on the block, partially in the lane.

I come up with a whistle, don't hear the L blowing on it at the same time, and look up to see him banging it home and already on his way to the table as I'm doing the same.

No big deal -- but I recognize that it was (1) probably my foul to get since the L reached across and (2) still my fault since I was an outside official and we constantly talk about the L having first crack in the lane.

It was loud, though - the gym was absolutely packed. On one foul I ended up having to tweet a few times to actually stop play.