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Originally posted by Nevadaref
If you blew the whistle while looking at the coach AND THEN turned and looked at the game clock, then you should put 0.3 back on the clock and play it out.
If you blew the whistle while you could see the clock and observe the 0.3 tick away after your whistle sounded, then by the current NFHS rules, you may NOT put any time back and the game is over.
This timing rule is definitely under review by the NFHS rules committee. The NCAA rules permit the official to put back whatever time was observed. I'm hoping that the NFHS adopts this.
I had a game this past season in which I had to watch 0.6 run off and declare the game over under the similar circumstances because I was looking directly at the clock when I blew the whistle and the timer couldn't react fast enough to get it stopped.
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I agree, the one-second runoff rule is uncomfortable. I was waiting for the time-out, so I was staring down the coach. I blew, looked up, and saw the time.
Naturally the other team was off the bench and starting to celebrate, while I had a whistle and a hand in the air. As I was explaining that team B's coach called the time-out, my partner came over. This is where it got really tricky. He said that the kid dribbling up the court stopped and took three steps to shoot, so he blew his whistle (simultaneously, apparenty) for the travel. As he thought play was over, he waved off the travel. So in his estimation, we had a timeout, a travel, and a turnover. We awarded the ball to team A with the three-tenths left. The decision was well received by all, but it felt a little wierd to me. How could we know for sure if the travel came first? It would have been quite close. But he whistled it, so we enforced it.