NCAA - Stop clock on OOB or not?

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Originally Posted by BillyMac

Yeah. I'll be glad to work with that official. However, there is another choice. Give me an official who's getting his calls correct, is a good communicator, and uses near perfect mechanics. We train our officials to use a particular "set" of mechanics, and then these officials, as they "move up, or "move down", will be observed, and evaluated, on that "set" of mechanics, along with the accuracy of their calls, game management, communication, appearance, etc. If you're supposed to do it a certain way in your "neck of the woods", then why not do it that way? Why deviate from the accepted norm?

First off, this is mostly a philosophical debate...in the long run, I'll do what I have to do to move up and so will any other official.

I guess at the base of it, I don't look at these mechanics so stringently. And maybe some of the stuff that's been brought up, I feel like should be optional. My main point still stands that the first and ultimately most important thing is call accuracy. Next IMO, we want to be effective communicators...this means verbally w/partners, coaches, players, and the table, and non-verbally with our signals (which is why I might not necessarily see the use of "non-standard" mechanics as such a huge issue). Now if somehow, two officials are exactly equal in both areas is when one's mechanics (read signals) can come into play. Of course, this is all IMO.