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Originally posted by firedoc
In NCAA my guess would be that it is the time of the whistle. There is a normal reaction time for officials to first see the foul, register the information in the brain, and then blow the whistle. It is almost impossible to quantify the time for the first two steps, so the only definitive time frame is the whistle. Otherwise, you would have to put time back on the clock after EVERY whistle, whether for a foul or a violation.
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That's what I thought too, just looking if there are actual guidelines they follow. Also, vis a vis fans rushing the court discussion earlier, could you imagine what would have happened if the refs T'd the pom pom girls that jumped up to the sideline after the made freethrow and surrounded the Ill player trying to inbound the ball? If he had decided to run the baseline instead of call timeout that would have put the refs in a bad position but like someone said earlier, if it gets called at a high profile D1 game it'd sure put a stop to it at all levels.
Thu Mar 06, 2003, 02:14pm
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