Mercy Rule

[Texas Aggie]

In Texas, at Varsity, I've never seen or heard of a game shortened or a running clock instituted

Its actually happened (running clock, mostly) quite a bit over the years, at all levels, including 5A. Now TAPPS has their 40 point clock running rule for the second half. We had it in a game earlier this year and also ran the clock in 2 other V games.

[REFANDUMP]

In South Dakota we have a running clock if the lead goes over 35 points in the second half (cannot go back to a standard clock) and game over if the lead reaches 50 in the second half. Works well here. They don't use this in our top division, though.

[JasonTX]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Its actually happened (running clock, mostly) quite a bit over the years, at all levels, including 5A. Now TAPPS has their 40 point clock running rule for the second half. We had it in a game earlier this year and also ran the clock in 2 other V games.

Not my game, but a crew in my chapter were informed by both coaches that they agreed to shorten the periods to 8 mins. to begin the third period. The sad thing is, the losing coach actually requested to have a running clock before the game even began.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

the losing coach actually requested to have a running clock before the game even began.

I had that happen one time. We didn't do it... but we quickly saw why he wanted to do it, and ran the last part of Q2 and all of the 2nd half.