New Rule

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Glad to see you've changed your mind.

No, that was my position all alone, you just read into it what you thought I meant and ran with it. You guys tend to do that a lot. They have a term for that, jump to conclusions. There is also a cure for it. Stop drinking the kool-aid, JR spike it.

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.

Who said I didn't see the clock?

Unless, of course, you're going to lie and say you saw the time on the clock.

If I put .5 seconds up on the clock, that means I saw the clock. If I call a foul and the buzzer goes off, like in the video, and I'm looking at the players, but i know my whistle occurred before the horn went off. I'm putting .5 seconds on the clock. Now, who's going to challenge that? The coach, the assigner, the video? When you start telling me what i saw as an official, then you can officiate the game cause i no longer want to work for you. If it makes you feel better, I saw .5 on the clock after I view the whistle. Feel better now? Am I lying? Am I cheating? The point is, you will never know. You can't prove it so why argue it. The point is, you have to trust the crew you have working the game that they are going to make the right decision. Leave it at that. If the officials in the video decided they wanted to put time back on the clock, the only issue is how much time should be put back on the clock. I could support any decision they made here. It is their game, let them decide how they want their game to end.

In that video, I'm going home, game over, picture perfect ending to a great game. In the NBA and college, we got to check the monitor to see how much time is left on the clock after the whistle blew. it's that simple.