Tennessee--Rutgers ending--Women's Game

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Originally Posted by JRutledge

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.

Good catches!!! My point is that the clock wasn't running then stopped with out whistle then started again. These aren't catches while the clock was running and just stopped for no reason & restarted.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

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.

Not hard @ all for me. It sounds like you advocating watching the clock while its running? Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you are saying. So just to clarify..Is that what you are saying? Or are you saying to look @ the clock on a whistle or after dead ball when the clock should start?

My point is that there is no reason and I mean no reason for nobody on the crew to look @ the clock while it is running just to make sure is doesn't malfunction, on a whistle..sure, on a touch..sure, but not while its running.