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Originally posted by Ref Ump Welsch
Read the original posting folks. The trail official made an error in timing by chopping the clock while the ball was still out of bounds. Definite knowledge would be that 3 seconds will be on the clock when the restart occurs. Taking off any time would be another error compounding the original error.
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Definite knowledge means you know that 3 seconds did not legally pass before the horn went off. You need that to do anything in this situation. As for the do-over, you have no rule support for it, so some would argue that you are compounding the origianl error by deviating from the rules. Unfortunately, there is no great way to fix this. These are the kind of mistakes you hope to avoid, but don't kill yourself if they happen, because they will sometime.