New Rule

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Old School

I am in agreement here. We should enforce the rules as they are written.

Glad to see you've changed your mind.

Originally Posted by Old School

No assigner in the world is going to quiver over .3 seconds in the absence of a monitor.

No, but he will quibble over your absolute disregard for the rules if you put time on the clock without having seen the clock with time on it. Unless, of course, you're going to lie and say you saw the time on the clock.

Originally Posted by Old School

You want to fire a referee because he's off .3 tenths of a second. I tell you what. There won't be many referee's left to officiate if we do this.

Go look up non-sequiter.

No one is saying you're going to get fired for missing it by .3 seconds. You'd get fired for blatantly, purposefully, willfully, and brazenly ignoring the rules as written; which state clearly you can't put time on the clock if you don't know how much time to put on. You can justify this on whatever moral and/or civil rights grounds you want to; the fact is, you cannot do it by rule. When you disregard the rules, for whatever reason, and implement your own vision of what's fair, you make the game about you. And that is a disservice to the game.

BTW, disregard what's in red above, it's obviously not relevant to this post.