Notes from a recent ref clinic

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Rich

There are a fair of games where a team holds the ball the last 60 or 90 seconds of a quarter. As a fan, that's a lot of dead time to watch. A shot clock, even a 45 second one, addresses that to a certain degree.

True, but with a financial impact to many schools that might otherwise never face the problem designed to be solved. Not to mention now you'd need to train/employ shot clock operators, a job that requires more focus than the timer. I have enough problems with timers as it is.

If we're gonna do it to prevent stalling, let's set it at 30 or 35 and spice up the game at the same time. Either way you achieve the primary objective of preventing stalls, assuming that even is the primary objective.

Then again, I concede it's easy to shorten the SC once the infrastructure is already in place. You know the NFHS; they love their little bitty incremental changes.