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Old Sun Jan 15, 2006, 07:31pm
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Originally posted by refTN
Congratulations you have been bitten by the bug and you are well on your way to being a solid official.

And the reason you don't see alot of D1 college officials using the stop clock signal now is because most D1 schools use the PTS (Precision Timing System) to start and stop the clock. So when a ref blows his whistle the clock stops automatically, hence no need for the signal.
I do not know that I agree with that last statement. There are conferences that do not use the PTS and the officials did not use the stop clock signal anyway. Also, I saw official not use the "stop clock signal" before the PTS was made popular. I do not think that had anything to do with the lack of usage of this particular signal.

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