Substitution Question

[chseagle]

I was expecting someone to ask me if this was something I was doing with or without mutual consent of floor officials & coaches.

I've done shortened halftimes before as well by mutual consent.

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Okay, now that we can work with. If you are being asked to act contrary to the rules for the sake of keeping the sub-varsity games moving along, then by all means, do so.

But please clearly acknowledge that this is what you are doing. NFHS rules do not allow either team to cause a time out to be cut short if the other team desires to take the full time. So sounding the warning horn early is clearly wrong by rule.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by chseagle

I was expecting someone to ask me if this was something I was doing with or without mutual consent of floor officials & coaches.

I've done shortened halftimes before as well by mutual consent.

This is not a rule that can be altered by mutual consent. So for you to openly state that you are "doing your own thing" on this, clearly in contradiction to the rules is not going to evoke kindly, probing questions. It's going to get you lit up.

[chseagle]

During all the Varsity games I've done, the only time I ever hit the horn during TOs was to sound 1st horn/2nd horn as the required intervals.

The timing device I normally use is my watch's stopwatch function.

This year am thinking if using my iPod Touch's stopwatch function instead.

The one time I used the time-out timer on the scoreboard controls, the system froze up

Until WIAA instituted the 35 sec. shot clock for boys, I was using the shot clock as the time out timer during boys' games.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by chseagle

I was expecting someone to ask me if this was something I was doing with or without mutual consent of floor officials & coaches.

Um, no. In that case you would be assuming that some of us actually care what you personally do. We don't. All we expect from any timer is for them to follow the timing rules and not make up their very own version of those rules. Iow, they do their job and leave us alone to do ours. You seem to be having some problems comprehending that.