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Originally Posted by jmaellis
As a newer referee this particular (and other similar) issue perplexes me. Maybe I haven't "got it" yet and in time maybe it will all come to me, but the 10 second rule is, well ... a rule of the game. Why is it any less important than other violations such as traveling or being OOB. We don't allow a player to take just one (or two or three) extra step(s) before calling a travel. Did the player gain any real advantage by taking that extra step(s)? What about OOB? Did the player gain any real advantage because his foot was slightly OOB for one step while dribbling up the side line? No, of course not. But as referees we call every travel and/or OOB violation that we see, in other words, we enforce those rules. Why should the 10 second rule be any different?
From day one I've wondered why referees are taught that certain rules are unimportant and can be ignored, such as the 10 second free throw limitation. This rule is part of the mental aspect of the game.
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You actually touched on it. Advantage/Disadvantage. Letting them play. yada yada. Around here, most officials will tell you that they will never call this violation. Why? If you asked them, you would probably get 100 different answers.
In my scenario that actually happened, the girl HAD started her shoooting motion, but the ball had not left her hand when the whistle sounded. I know that the calling official counted too fast. I don't take tenseconds to walk backwards along the baseline from the key to the sideline extended of the volleyball court. Its only about 3-4 steps. Is a player gaining an advantage by taking 11 seconds instead of 10 seconds?
Do you call 3 seoconds at exactly 3 seconds? Or is it 3.5 or 4 because you are looking at the whole situation and only start the count when you realize the player is camping. Do you warn a player ti get out of the key before you call three seconds. What if its a double low post and there are two players in the key, are you counting for both?
On a side note, here's another rule I refuse to enforce. We were told that ANY undergarments visible under the uniform must meet the color guidelines. Well, guess what, I am NOT going to tell some 15 - 16 year old girl that her sports bra is the wrong color and that the idiot AD that ordered the jerseys that allow these to become visible caused me to notice it. Before you say, thats not the Spirit of the rule, stop. I had a coach ask me to enforce just that violation. I told him I wasn't looking there.