New Rule

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You don't know the old rules. You don't know the new rules. Why post?

To learn and i just did. If you don't inquire then you will never know. I guess my interpretation is to do the right thing. Leave it to the Fed. to do something completely different. I could swear that we where told at our meeting that we could always put time back on the clock if we had definite knowledge. Now, I've learned within a second, you can't. It's a good thing they changed it because most of us probably wasn't doing it anyway.

I wonder if we didn't have this happen in a state playoff game and it was challenged and learned that the official was wrong to make the change. That's a loophole, and thank god it's been corrected.

[Adam]

Yes, this particular "loop hole" has been changed. However, the greater point of it is still valid. Unless there is an actual timer (or mechanical) error, you can't put time on or take time off. What an individual official thinks is "the right thing" isn't relevant here if it goes against the rules. It's exactly the kind of thing the FED wants to get away from, because it inserts the official too much into the contest. It then becomes about what the official thinks rather than what the rules say.

It ain't about us.