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Forum: Football Mon Sep 16, 2019, 08:11am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman That's when it makes the most sense. I don't... That's when it makes the most sense. I don't know what NCAA's reasoning was circa 1970, but I might guess that they were thinking team A should not be losing (or taking) time off the period clock...

Forum: Football Sun Sep 15, 2019, 07:37am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman Wow. When NCAA first adopted the business of... Wow. When NCAA first adopted the business of stopping the clock to reset the chain -- close to 50 years ago -- that provision didn't even reference the ready-for-play. It just provided for time out...

Forum: Football Thu Sep 12, 2019, 08:20am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman They tested it first in the WLAF with a 35 second... They tested it first in the WLAF with a 35 second clock. That was one of the reasons for the WLAF: to be a test bed for rules. 35 seconds was found to be unbearably fast, so when the NFL finally...

Forum: Football Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:05am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman Even under that generous assumption, that's still... Even under that generous assumption, that's still a variation of 3 seconds. 3 seconds that one team might want to have, and the other team not want them to have. If it didn't matter, this...

Forum: Football Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:12am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman Ever since the WLAF experimented with this type... Ever since the WLAF experimented with this type of play clock 30 years ago, it's insured consistency in one thing at the expense of consistency in another. When you base the time to put the ball in...

Forum: Football Tue Sep 10, 2019, 09:59am

Replies: 88 25/40 Play clock Views: 6,732 Posted By Robert Goodman Because it resulted in too much variation in the... Because it resulted in too much variation in the time from dead ball to delay of game play to play and game to game.[/QUOTE] The blowing of the whistle to announce RFP did that?? One of you is...

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