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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: TxGrayhat on August 26, 2010, 10:48:25 PM
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Tonight in a subvarsity game on a kick off. Team B picks up the kick just before it goes untouched into the endzone at about the 1 or 2 yard line and starts running towards the sideline as he does this I decide to go ahead and spit the whistle out of my mouth... You guessed it,,,, the little bit of air it took to spit it out made the whistle go tweet. It wasn't very loud but to me it sounded like a train horn..... I had just finished telling the guys with me there are two kind of officials those that have had an IW and those that will. I have officially joined the haves. embarrassing
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Ouch....sorry to hear that. I've taken to the practice of removing the whistle from my mouth with my hand for fear of doing this exact thing.
If it makes you feel any better, at least it wasn't during an onside kick like we had yesterday during my freshman game. No it wasn't me but it was ugly all the same. :o
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Welcome. You may now come into the club house.
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When I used a lanyard whistle I'd hold in it one hand ready to put into my mouth on such occasions, ditto pre-snap. But not keep it in my mouth for fear of an IW and I've been bitten by enough of those in my early career to last me. I don't feel the need to be able to blow it dead within a milli-sec of it becoming dead, hence it doesn't stay in my mouth.
Not wanting to get into the whole finger whistle debate (been done to death on numerous other threads) but I now use one. Works for me, I accept they are not to everyone's taste.
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" If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound ? " I tried to use that philosophy on my IW, no one bought it.
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OK, different sport, but along the same lines.
I was keeping the clock for the SEC basketball tournament a few years back. In most D1 NCAA games, the official's whistles are tied into the timing system (Precision Timing). When the whistle blows, the clock stops. The game timer (me) must then manually stop the clock within two seconds, or the clock automatically restarts, assuming the stop was an error.
About 8-10 minutes into the game, the head of SEC officials comes to the table and asks me why I keep stopping the clock for a few seconds, and starting it again. Needless to say, I wasn't. We watched the officials and the clock CLOSELY for the next few minutes, and figured out what was happening: One of the officials was talking to the players in the key, telling them to stop the hands, the pushing, etc. Problem was, he was barely taking the whistle out of his mouth, and the air from his speech was blowing across the top of the whistle and activating the timing shutoff.
Next time out, we had to give him a little speech about moving his whistle away from his mouth, or shut up! ;D
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" If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound ? " I tried to use that philosophy on my IW, no one bought it.
I'm not going to lie. I thought about it for a second untill i saw the runner obviously react to the whistle and slow down. Then I get on the whistle hard. Look across the field at my co-official who is laughing at me calling me Mr. IW.
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" If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound ? "
If I make a statement and my wife's not there to hear it, am I still wrong?
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If I make a statement and my wife's not there to hear it, am I still wrong?
LOL
Consider this stolen.
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If I make a statement and my wife's not there to hear it, am I still wrong?
Even if she hears it. Man is always wrong ;D
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An IW is bad, but much worse is having one and not owning up to it.
As a player a few years ago I had that happen.
New ref let a little tweet on the sideline, but let the play continue. I had started pulling up as I had heard the whistle. Talked to the white hat who went and conferred with the newbie (he also thought he had heard it, but wasn't sure). Newbie says he didn't whistle, so WH lets the play stand. No point in arguing about it since he said he didn't.
At half time I talked with him and the WH (I had been an official for about 5 years at this point), to tell him that the IW wasn't as bad as not owning up to it, and he admitted to he had blown it, but didn't think anyone had heard it.
Oh well. He didn't come back after that year. Some people just don't fit in...
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try a wrist lanyard