Rules question

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Welpe

We check the clock when it is supposed to stop or shouldn't have started and can relay corrections up to the press box. 4 seconds run off at the beginning of the quarter would probably not warrant the hassle of having to correct clock. Many college conferences have guidelines for when to correct timing mistakes.

We would fix it on the first play of the quarter. It's too obvious to let go, IMO.

This past year we had a kickoff that was touched inbounds by R and went out of bounds. The clock didn't move despite the covering official(s) winding it. As the on-field timekeeper, I went to the R and told him what had happened and that we should take 2 seconds off the clock. He did.

We had an observer and it was one of the positive comments mentioned in our postgame with him.

This was at the college level with a field microphone. My threshold is a bit different in the game where I have to go over to a coach and have him relay information to an assistant coach in the booth who has to then relay the information to the timer.