Late Team

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Freshman Team showed up very late for their game Friday due to traffic. Game Mgt didn't decide to make up time until they implemented the running clock in the second half of the JV game.

This may not be a very practical post, so just consider it for "test taking" purposes:

Illegal under NFHS rules, unless allowed under state association guidelines. Without such guidelines, no running clock, just shorten the periods, or in the case of a nonvarsity game, shorten the number of periods. For a nonvarsity game, just the coaches can decide this, don't even need the referee's permission.

A quarter(s) may be shortened in an emergency or at any time by
mutual agreement of the opposing coaches and referee. Playing time and number
of quarters for nonvarsity game quarters may be reduced by mutual agreement
of opposing coaches.
NOTE: A state association by adoption may institute a running clock when a specified
point differential is reached at a specified time in the game.

[JRutledge]

This is not our jurisdiction. We just wait until they arrive and maybe consult the assignor as to how long we might wait, otherwise this is an administrative issue, not an officiating issue. And we would wait reasonably for the game to get started.

Peace

[trojans2545]

Late teams are not our problem either. We wait them out and leave it to the schools to sort out.

I did have one last year where neither team showed up. There was snow coming in late that night that pounded Illinois all day so they went ahead and cancelled the game, they just forgot to tell me and my partner. Got a check two weeks later.