Tennessee--Rutgers ending--Women's Game

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Gimlet25id

Were any of these mistakes where the clock was running, stopped without a whistle then started again? I doubt it very seriously. I can understand making sure the clock stops on a whistle and starts on the touch, these are the mistakes that we should be catching.

Two or three of the situations the clock did not start at all during a throw-in and I blew my whistle to make sure the clock was set to the proper time after I play had clearly started. The other situations a whistle was blown and the clock did not stop. One of the situations I did not blow the whistle and I was the only one that caught the clock not stopping properly and I had to put time on the clock.

Originally Posted by Gimlet25id

Again we should be checking to make sure it stops on a whistle and starts on a touch &/or possession. Why would you be looking @ the clock while it was running? Other then in shot clock games where we take a look @ the game clock to get the change of possession time. In this play the shot clock was off!!

If this is too hard for you to wrap your mind around, then so be it. I am not telling you what to do or what to think. But this situation we are discussing has been discussed on every ESPN show you can think of. Obviously this will likely be addressed by the conference or supervisor even if we do not find out about it. I know in lesser publicized situations there were media releases. If you do not want to accept the reality of all this attention, keep doing what you are doing and I hope that no one throws you under the bus based on tape evidence in any of your games.

Peace