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Originally posted by SMEngmann
A couple points, first, I agree the lag time rule could be modified, but how? We don't have the types of replay systems that they have in college, so there's really no way to put an exact time on the board. In most of the situations, I think it's an official's guess as to how much time was left, which is really not better than lag time (I see this a lot with the shot clock, if there's an erroneous reset, the conclusion will be something like "Ahh just put 27 seconds up there."
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This is why it's a stupid rule: if more than 1 second comes off erroneously then we get to set the clock back to the *proper* time. IOO if the clock operator is good enough to stop it under 1 second we can't do anything about it. If he's sleeping and doesn't stop it in under a second we can fix it completely. But in no event are we permitted to guess at what the clock should be. We can only act on definite knowledge, which Chuck had in this case.
And btw, there are lots of ncaa games played without a monitor at tableside.
Thu Mar 10, 2005, 07:48am
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