New Rule

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Old School

Well, if you're a candy a$$ bookworm official, you could say that nothing illegal or timer mistake has happen and the game is over. However, my point is, even before the rule change, if there is .9 or .09 seconds left and I blow the whistle and observed time remaining and the clock goes to 0. Yes, there is a lag time of one second but I could always put the .9 back on. Definite knowledge.

Again, you have definite knowledge, but there's no error so you couldn't, by rule, make that change previously.

Originally Posted by Old School

This is where your argue?ment is wrong. You assume that the rule change last year gave us the ability to now do this. Well, again you are wrong. We could always do this, lag time or not. The rule change this past season was moot to me.

My argument isn't flawed. Your reasoning is. Most officials actually care about enforcing the rules as written. Obviously, there are exceptions. Tim Donaghy, Old School, etc. The rule change wasn't "moot" to those who actually know the rules.

And no, I'm not saying the rule change gave us the ability to do it, it gave us the authority. It's obvious that rogue officials have ability to do a lot of things they don't have authority to do. I can tell you, however, that prior to the rule change, if a HS official put .9 seconds back on the clock at the end of the game and the outcome changed as a result; he'd have been relegated to officiating under wreck wrules.

Originally Posted by Old School

If i have definite knowledge and it is different than what the time now reads. I now have a timer mistake. The timer may not have done anything wrong, it's just the clock is displaying the wrong time. Get this, whenever I go to adjust the current time, it means the timer has made a mistake.

I get what you're saying. I'm only telling you that, by rule, you're wrong. What's comical to the rest of us here is that no only do you no know this; but you admittedly don't care that you're wrong. Instead of being grateful for having the correct rule pointed out to you, you dig your heals in and pound the podium harder.