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Originally Posted by packersowner
I'll say it again, there is a time and place where this is necessary. However, you can watch games at every level with the best officials in the country, there is no way they are putting the ball on the floor 99% of the time as soon as the 2nd horn sounds.
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You'd be mistaken.
I worked with one of the top officials in the state a couple years back who did just that. He had told the captain, he had told the coaches in the pre-game meeting. On the first timeout where they were a bit slow, he prodded them out. Next timeout, he put the ball down right after the 2nd horn.
The coach who had possession later said to him, with a smile, "
, you only warned us 3 times" and some other words basically saying they were fairly instructed.
Some officials may not be able to pull it off so smoothly, bit it is done.