10 Sec Backcourt Count

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by johnny d

If you ever worked a lower level NCAA game or a NAIA game, you would know that often, the ability of the person responsible for starting/stopping the shot clock in those games, leaves much to be desired. There are some schools I have gone to where the shot clock is wrong on every possession. They either start it too soon (while the person throwing the ball in still has the ball out of bounds), or they start it too late (the offensive team has already taken 5 dribbles up the court and it still hasn't started). One learns very quickly that it would be a complete waste of time to stop the game and fix the situation at some of those schools because you would be doing this on almost every possession.

Johnny:

I don't know how much experience at the college level you have but I officiated women's college (every thing from jr. college to Div. I, including 40 post-season games) from 1974 to 2008 and men's jr. college from 1993 to 2008, and I have cannot ever remember having trouble with shot clock timers and/or game clock timers.

MTD, Sr.