Remember: Stay alive during end-of-game situations...

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Originally Posted by KJUmp

I thought in D1 that the clock was started by the wireless device that's on the officials waistband?

A mini-season ticket package (with seats near one of the end lines) gets me to several D1 games per year at a nearby A10 school. I've noticed how the official administering a throw-in is doing his five second count with one hand, while the other hand is on the device, and then have observed the "chop" and the flick of the device switch when the throw in has been legally touched in-bounds. So, I've always thought that the on floor officials were starting the clock.

Is that in fact the case?

Can someone fill me in as just how those devices work, and the whole clock starting procedure when those devices are being used in a game?

Not every conference uses the PTS.

I've never used it, so I can't explain any other intricacies of it that may impact a play like this, either.