Use your mulligan?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The Game Clock starts when the Toss is touched by either jumper, and we do not reset the game clock if the ball is tossed and we then blow the ball dead for the bad toss.

Not quite. Almost only counts in horseshoes, and hand grenades.

5-9-2: If play is started or resumed by a jump, the clock shall be started when the tossed ball is legally touched.

If you're retossing for a bad toss, then you would be correct to not reset the game clock if the ball was legally touched.

If you call a violation because the ball was legally touched, and subsequently illegally caught by one of the jumpers, then you would be correct to not reset the game clock because the ball was legally touched.

However, if you call a violation because the ball was touched by a jumper on the way up, that's an illegal touch, and the game clock should be reset to 8:00 if the timekeeper had erroneously started the game clock.

Just flip a damn coin, or give the ball to the visitors. It'll save a lot of aggravation.