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Old Wed May 02, 2007, 02:18am
Nevadaref Nevadaref is offline
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Originally Posted by Mark Dexter
Yeah - seems a bit much to me. The whole point of a horn used to be "you have only a small fraction of your allotted time remaining."

That said - the first coach who "loses track" of time is going to get pissed and probably earn himself a second T along with a trip to the locker room. After that, every coach will be rushing someone to the table at the first horn.
Actually, I think that the change will make things simpler for the coaches. We can now tell them that once a warning horn sounds, they have 15 seconds to get their players whereever they are required to be.

I envision this.
A situation arises in which a timed interval is needed and the official instructs the timer to start the clock. Now we wait around until...

BUZZ!!!

Coach: "What was that for?"

Official: "It means you've got fifteen seconds, coach."

Coach: "Ok."
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