"New Switch" Progress Report

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by AremRed

We did the long switch last year until too many officials complained that no one knew how to do it. We had meetings and power points and multiple officials trying to describe how they thought it worked; all for naught.

We tried the "no long switch", here in my little corner of Connecticut, a few years ago. No long switch in the backcourt when there is no change of possession. Team A is not in the bonus. A1, dribbling in his back court, is fouled by B1. No change of possession. Team A had possession, and Team A will retain possession after the penalty for the foul is charged (no one and one). Trail (remember, two person Connecticut), reports the foul, and goes back to the trail position. Lead does not initiate a switch, and stays put.

Sounds simple. Right? Wrong. We had guys "no long switching" on player control fouls (charges), and on rebounding fouls. Some officials were lazy, and others just didn't get it.

Now we (again) switch on every single foul, that's right, every single foul; long switches, short switches, medium switches, big, and tall switches, shooting fouls, nonshooting fouls, shoot the breeze fouls, shoot the messenger fouls, they shoot horses, don't they, fouls, etc. You name it, we switch it.