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Lag Rule
I want to really think and discuss the lag rule in high school. Yes I undertand the reason behind the rule, but also I want to look at why is it still written the same way. We allow a full second for the timer to stop the clock after each whistle. Add that up over a game time and you could have a minute, maybe a bit much, of time that expires off of the clock without play occuring. Maybe there are some really slow timers out there who really need to rethink their advocation of being a timer and move on with life. But for the most part I have had exceptional timers at the varsity level and they are really quick to stop the time. I have trained myself to look at the clock at every single whistle to make sure of proper start and stop times. If at the end of the game I feel that it is too loud for the timer to hear and I blew the whistle I would correct the time to what I saw on the clock. I have never used the 1 second lag rule to correct a timing mistake, nor do I think that it would be expected by the coaches in the area I work. They would want the time that is on the clock when the whistle blew. Should this rule be changed? I think so.
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