Each official should have knowledge of the clock. Off the play officials will primarily look at it since those who with the action will be dealing with dead ball action and shouldn't look up at the clock during that time, but other officials will see the clock stopping signal and can look at the clock to make sure it stops. With all that said, (NCAA) we don't nitpick the clock operators for every single second. We use a 5/5 axiom, meaning that with more than 5 minutes in either half 5 or more seconds would have to run off before we make a correction, unless it was happening each time. We're not going to allow them to intentionally burn time off on every play that requires the clock to stop. If it's under 5 minutes, then we start tightening up on the accuracy of the clock operator.
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