Your opinion...please

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by DrMooreReferee

I don't get on this board all that much. But when I do, its to try and get some interesting conversation going or to get a little advice. What I do not like is DUDEs like youthat just wanna make everything an arguement.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Your original post asked for opinions, and I gave mine. For reasons that are obscure to me, you took that personally, even though I didn't mention you or your game. I didn't even know it was your game when I posted.

If you don't want opinions, don't post on a forum.

[MD Longhorn]

DrMoore - mb responded to two other people's comments on this thread, and then you attacked him - essentially in my book after he had just agreed with you. In this attack you ask him 3 other scenarios and then deride him. I completely don't blame him for ignoring you.

Then after another reply of his, you sarcastically refer to his intelligence and knowledge, implying he has none in your opinion.

All this after he basically said the only way to fix LJ's error is to make up rules (which is what you did). For the record, I likely would have done what you did.

Snarkiness = unnecessary antagonism. Not understanding your continual and completely uncalled for antagonism.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by DrMooreReferee

mbyron, I have no idea who you are and don't really care. But let me tell you a little about me. I've been officiating high school football for 12 yrs. I've been a Referee for 10 of those years. I study the rules very hard. I make very good on the exam every year. And the exam we take is not the NFHS exam that most other states take. Our exam is extremely difficult. So, please don't be an A$$ and try to make me out to be some guy that just makes up stuff as he goes along. I would imagine that I'm AT LEAST as smart you. So, why don't you leave the attitude at the door?

I don't get on this board all that much. But when I do, its to try and get some interesting conversation going or to get a little advice. What I do not like is DUDEs like youthat just wanna make everything an arguement.

THIS is snarkiness. WTH are you calling him out? He said nothing to denigrate you at all, and you suddenly feel the need to throw your resume at him and call him an @$$, and follow that up by telling him he's "making you out to be some guy that just makes stuff up" when he didn't even reply to you in the first place ... and then seem offended when he doesn't reply to the other questions in the post?

YOU are offended? That's absurd.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ppaltice

I would have done what you did: not wind the clock. Rule 1-1-6 allows the referee to rule promptly on situations not specifically covered in the rules. Here Team A ran ~20s off the play clock in a close game. It would not be within the spirit of the rules to allow them to run an additional 20s off the clock.

The problem with this advice is that the OP IS covered in the rules. LJ called an official's time out. 3-4-2 explicitly requires the clock to start on the RFP after an official's time out (with some exceptions irrelevant to the OP).

It's a very bad habit to think that because one is not sure how the rules apply to a case that one therefore can just make sh!te up. 1-1-6 allows officials to deal with a cow that wanders onto the field, not with unusual timing situations.