Notes from a recent ref clinic

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Seriously, that's the way they're going to introduce it? Use the old time standard that the NCAA used and abandoned years ago? Stupid. Just go with 30. How many HS offenses do you know that take 45 seconds to operate? I mean why even bother?

It isn't that good offenses take 45 seconds to operate. It is that some teams will not be able to get much going in 20 or 25. I don't think they want to create any more of a turnover-fest in those games than they already are.

Assuming it is true, it would seem they want to establish an upper limit to eliminate pure stall games where teams try to hold the ball for 2, 3, 4, or even more minutes. It wouldn't be so much about increasing the pace of play in the average game as the NBA and NCAA wish to do but prevent the nearly complete cessation of play in the few games that suffer from such play styles.