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Originally Posted by jchamp
In fact, least amount of time that is useful is 3 seconds, in which case he can be reasonably sure he has an opportunity to spike the ball, if he's got a quick, disciplined squad.
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That's only a rule in NCAA rules, nothing like it exists in FED (or NFL, as far as I am aware).
Our HS rules interpreter has said that we should "find out if the scoreboard displays tenths of seconds, and if it does, try to get the tenths of a second display disabled", since, as you said, tenths of seconds do not matter in football. Unfortunately, it seems that about 2/3rds of the scoreboards around here display tenths, and clock operators get the 'deer in the headlights' look when you ask them to update the clock settings.
I wish we could get some edict from the state office on this so our request would have some teeth to it, but that doesn't seem to be forthcoming.