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Originally Posted by Dakota
I agree... be as straightforward with the clock as possible. No mysterious start times, no mysterious time expireds, be direct with the coaches when time starts, how much time is left, and so on.
The controversies cannot happen when everyone knows the clock situation and when it will expire.
Well, at least not THOSE controversies... you'll still have the stalling, etc., to deal with.
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Actually... I had one game where one of the players smarted off to me to hurry the batter up (and believe me, this was immediately after an out was caught) because time was running out. I called time, told him to knock it off (the attitude towards me), and continued the game. In the end, this same jerk is the one who got tossed by me at the end of the game in
this post.
Controversies can still happen. Time being posted on the board does not eliminate them - sometimes, it creates them!
Though all things being equal, if they know as much as possible about the game situation, they have less room to gripe.