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Originally Posted by Mike L
All that is true, but I'm sure the resistance to this offense comes from the use of an exception put in place for a specific purpose and using it all the time thereby eliminating the exception aspect of the rule. This was clearly not the intent of the rule, but the founders of this offense are, for now, legally exploiting a loop hole.
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Clock strategy was not the intent of the timing rules, but there it is. The clock was stopped under certain cirumstances to not penalize team A when extra time was needed to ready the ball for play. They didn't intend for teams to conserve time by deliberately making the ball dead in certain ways.
Robert