Thrower tosses ball to official

[sseltser]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

This usually happens in the last minute, and the clock isn't running then (in college). (I didn't see the play in question to know when it happened.)

Certainly happened with more than one minute. Basically just a ploy to get the press offense set up without using any of the alotted 5 seconds. Maybe to let the clock run for a few extra seconds, too. My guess is that Burr caught on, said something, and went with this remedy.