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Originally Posted by RoyGardner
I believe that Jason's comment was related to NCAA Rule 3.4.3 which gives the R significant control over the clock whenever either team fouls in a manner that would give them a "clock advantage" when we're at that point in a game when the game clock is critical.
I would agree that depending on how the R invokes 3.4.3 he has all of the "tools" he needs to prevent either team from unfairly "using the clock" by fouling.
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Not quite all. It doesn't provide for an untimed down. The ref is allowed to keep the clock stopped until the ball is put in play, but no longer.
With 8 secs. left in the game, team A, trailing by 5 points, snaps from wherever, and B1 is blatantly offside and blindsides A's quarterback. There are then 4 secs. remaining. The penalty for offside is enforced, and A snaps with 4 secs. left, but they don't get back the 4 secs. that ran off during their previous, futile play. If there were 0 time left, they'd get an untimed down, but because the down on which the foul occurred didn't use up the remainder of the period, they don't get an untimed down.
Robert