Do you? or Don't you?

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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.

Rich, that is the rule, and I agree with you that it's a little strange, but it's how we're supposed to do it. In terms of actual practice, it's almost impossible to get those tenths back on the clock correctly. The one game where I was watching and they were trying to get the tenths back up on the baord, the refs kept making the timer try again and again, until the coaches said, "Forget it!" That's how they handled it.