Clock Management

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Originally Posted by Scooby

Your question is who has the 'main' responsibility, that would be the LJ, because as by mechanics it is his job. But as with all clock errors, it is the crews responsibility! They all messed it up. In this situation, even LOS should know as the horn went off.

A basic principle is, and always has been, either a team "get's a play of in time...or it doesn't. Although sound advice remains, "When a scoreboard clock horn is operational, figure out how to shut it off if at all possible" to avoid the potential of difference between a mechanical shut-down and a manual (whistle)shut down.

When there's no horn, and a game official sees "00" and then blows his whistle, if the play somehow starts between the mili-second seeing "00" and actually sounding the whistle, the play NEVER started, and any advancement is with a "dead ball".

Either/both the LJ/BJ and R, should be concentrating on the clock(they're facing), to ensure the play got off on time (or not. ) If the play didn't start before the "0-0"showed, any/all should kill any action that may have started (to avoid the EXACT problem that ensued )