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There is a discussion over on a coach's board about a team's particularly blatent delay of game tactics near the end of a timed game.
ASA rule 5-4-E says,
A forfeited game shall be declared by the umpire in favor of the team not at fault in the following cases: ... If a team employs tactics noticeably designed to delay or to hasten the game.
So far as I am aware, this is the only overtly "clock management" rule in the ASA book - by that I mean a rule to specify team behavior when time becomes an issue.
It seems to me that "tactics noticeably designed" is a pretty low threshhold, and is an umpire's judgment call (not protestable, in other words). It would include, IMO, acts by the team/coach that if time were not an issue would otherwise be legal (e.g. defensive conferences, putting in substitutes, adjusting equipment, calling time to discuss an issue with the umpire, etc.).
How do you guys enforce this rule?
Have you ever enforced this rule (at least with a warning, if not an actual forfeit)?
What is your threshhold for "noticeably designed"?
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