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Old Wed Nov 28, 2001, 12:47pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Re: Re: Tony

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Originally posted by Mark Padgett

BTW - Camron once was involved in a post that argued whether or not the clock should start if A1 inbounded to A2 who was standing with one foot OOB. Maybe he can revisit that.
More precisely, the debate was not whether it should start but if it should be reset if it had been started.

The point I made was that timing errors are corrected when the time doesn't start or stop the clock as signaled by the officials. In this case, it is quite possible that the official administering the throwin and the one signaling the violation are not the same. As such, the timer will be observing the administering official for the "start clock" signal. The official will give the signal the moment the ball is touched. Since the player touching the ball is also OOB, the other official will be whistling the violation and raising the hand---instructing the timer to stop the clock. There will be some delay between the recognition of the whistle and the stopping of the clock (lag time).

So, the clock can properly start and stop with time elapsing on a play where the violation was simultaneous to the starting of the clock.

It is also possible that no time would elapse if it were the same official that administered the throwin and that observed the violation.
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