Do you? or Don't you?

[Rich]

I've always thought the lag time rule was a little inconsistent. If there's five seconds on the clock when the whistle blows and it goes down to four, no problem. Timer lag. If it goes down to 3, however, we put it back to 5 seconds.

If you were CERTAIN of the time when the whistle blew and more than one second of lag time came off the clock (NFHS) you are supposed to put ALL the time back on the clock. If one second or less came off the clock, you cannot put any time back on the clock. If you don't know how much time was left, you should leave the clock alone.

In any case where you need to put time back on the clock, you are not supposed to factor in ANY lag time. The correct solution in your play would be to put it back to 1.4 because more than one second came off the clock. However, if the clock had said 0.4, you would've left it alone because of the one second lag time allowed.

Realistically, I'm not good enough to KNOW down to the tenth of a second, but if the lag is over 1 second, I'll make a pretty good guess.

Read case play 5.10.1 in the NFHS Case Book.

[Edited by Rich Fronheiser on Jan 8th, 2004 at 10:44 PM]