Shot Clock Question ???

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I'm astounded that two varsity officials would take a game and not bother to read the handout before working the game -- especially when they know there's a shot clock in the game and not in the "other" league they work.

I go over this handout before every prep school game, a couple of times each season. We did read the handout, during pregame, and even again at halftime. The little tidbit regarding when to turn on the shot clock was "buried" under a list of possible shot clock violations (held ball, kicked ball, fifteen seconds, proper signal) so when we looked it over at halftime we couln't find it, since it wasn't a violation. It was "buried" so deep in the handout that I didn't finally find it until after I had posted the question on the Forum. This was after I read the handout before the game, during pregame, at halftime, and once again before I posted the question on the Forum. And, yes, we were probably wrong to assume that someone at the school (athletic director, site director, head coach, assistant coach, scorekeeper, timekeeper, shot clcok operator) would understand how to properly operate a shot clock, even though they use it in every single game, and most non-NCAA officials on our board only use these hybrid rules a couple of times each year. I wish I knew 100% of every single rule in the NFHS rulebook, I'm close, but after thirty years, I still don't. Throw in some hybrid NCAA/NFHS rules for a non-NCAA official, and it can get a little confusing. That doesn't mean that I'm not trying.