NCAA Mechanics Question

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Originally posted by Kelvin green

Not raising the open hand on a violation sor OOB to stop the clock (No one stops the clock on the hand going up, it's the whistle) saves energy, effort and no one loses anything in the game. ( it does save some time too)

No preliminary signals saves a ton of time and effort, and very rarely ever causes confusion.

Too bad we cant learn from this, instead NCAA, men/women/NF/ all want to do thigs differently. sometimes I think its the officials who are trying to protect some little kingdom.

I like many of the mechanics that the NBA uses. However, not all NBA mechanics would be good for NF and NCAA. The NBA referees are professional officials. They're training and continuing education is far greater than ours will ever be. As such, there are certain things that amatuer officials must do in order to slow us down and help us think.

You'll rarely ever see a double whistle on a block/charge in the NBA but it happens all the time in high school and college. Without the proper stopping of the clock, you get conflicting calls that get everybody in deep doo-doo.

I agree with you that the whistle is what the timer responds to when he stops the clock. But NBA officials don't call enough floor violations to warrant raising there hand to stop the clock. Besides, they use Precision Time, so thery're the ones stopping the clock anyway. Raisning our hand gives us an extra second to think about what we're going to call. I've changed many fouls to OOB calls in the time that it takes to raise my hand or fist.

NF mechanics are designed to do what many of us have difficulty doing, slowing down.