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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Mark,
That is an excellent and informative post.
I agree that the NCAA still has some clean up work to do in their timing rules.
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Wow - I think my head is spinning even more after reading through the rulebook, given all the contradictions. According to Rule 2, refs can only look at 0:00.0 on the clock, not the red light or the sound of the horn to determine whether a shot was good or not. Under Rule 5, however, the refs ARE permitted to look at the lights or listen for the horn (in that order) when the official clock is not shown on the replay.
Rule two seems to contradict itself further. Under 2-5-1(g), the refs can look at the monitor to fix a timing mistake (whistle, but the clock still runs). Under 2-6-2, in non-monitor games, the ref can have the game clock corrected when time runs off after a whistle and he has definite knowledge. The ARs (9, 10, 14) however, indicate that the referee can only put the time back on if more than 1 second has elapsed (i.e., the old NFHS lag time rule)!! I thought that NCAA allowed setting the exact time in both situations (and, frankly, this is what I've seen all college refs do.)
My favorite is the insistence that all the replay equipment - including the VCR unit - has to be located tableside. Yet, in my years of scorekeeping, I've never seen a TV truck parked on the bench next to me.
Now for the good. AR 120 says that, if the clock doesn't run when it should, you can go to the monitor to try to figure out how much time should have come off. I think it would be in the NCAA's best interest to explicitly state, however, that if there were (for example) 1.0 seconds left on the clock, and the ref timed the play at 1.5 seconds from touch to try (using a stopwatch), the basket would not count.
Of course, my favorite is AR 121.
I won't post it here, though, as I don't want to re-open THAT set of arguments for NFHS.