NFHS 3 Min. warmup

[The Roamin' Umpire]

At our local meeting Tuesday night, the word was passed down from the NY state office that we are to (a) time the 15 minutes (or other amount) for halftime on the game clock, (b) penalize the team if they're not on the field when that clock hits zero, and (c) not use the game clock for the 3-minute warmup period. So shall it be written, so shall it be done...

[Suudy]

We have been putting 3 min on the block after the intermission time for 2 reasons:

1) to keep the time (easy enough to do on our own watches)
2) to ward off any litigous freak that tries to sue us when a kid gets hurt.

If it is clear that they have had 3 mins to warm up, then there is no question of us doing our job.

[Theisey]

I happen to agree that the time should be put on the field clock for all to see.
In my small sectional area we do not. It's my understanding that they don't in other sections either.

Keeping 3 minutes on a watch is good enough.

[kdf5]

We don't get the teams but we do ask in the pregame where they are going at half and do they have a coach watching the clock so they're on the field for the three minutes. If they say yes, then it's their responsibility to be there. If they say no, then we tell them they need one.