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Old Sat Mar 10, 2018, 03:57pm
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The clock is not what determines the game is over alone. Why do officials insist on having a visual with the clock (which is often very high and out of the view of the court if you are clearly looking at a play) and not rely on the horn or maybe a light? What if you miss some contact or severity of the contact trying to look at the shot and the clock that might not be in a convenient place?

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Absolutely correct. Unless you're working in a place where the horn is really hard to hear, trying to get visual alignment is silly. Eyes on the play, ears for the horn.

I have been an advocate of this for over 25 years.

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Old Sat Mar 10, 2018, 04:16pm
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Eyes on the play, ears for the horn.
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I have been an advocate of this for over 25 years.
It was only twenty five years because for the first seventy-five years of Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.'s career there was no horn, it was a sundial.



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Old Sat Mar 10, 2018, 04:20pm
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It was only twenty five years because for the first seventy-five years of Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.'s career there was no horn, it was a sundial.



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It was only twenty five years because for the first seventy-five years of Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.'s career there was no horn, it was a sundial.



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Actually Billy the clock was a sundial but there was indeed a horn.

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Old Sat Mar 10, 2018, 06:38pm
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Actually Billy the clock was a sundial but there was indeed a horn.


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