One of the things wrong with college bball from today's game

[El Simbolo]

spending 5 minutes to "correct" the clock from 21.1 to 21.4 seconds. WHY? It doesn't matter if there is 21.4 or 21.1 seconds left. Even if UM scored with 0.2 seconds left it still didn't matter! That extra 0.3 gets absorbed into the play from 21 down to 15 seconds and they'll still base their shot off the the time remaining. It's not like they have plays that take 21 seconds to run. Also, why was 21.1 wrong? Doesn't the clock operator have some natural human reaction time? This happens way too often, sometimes with over a minute left. It bogs down games, gives teams extra timeouts, and is totally stupid

I'm done ranting- sorry

 

[KuwaitHawk]

Remember there are several games were .3 seconds mattered

 

[Birky]

Remember there are several games were .3 seconds mattered

True, but you can watch the replay once and correct it. Never figured out why it takes so long.

 

[slipHawk]

Games can come down to .3 seconds of course it matters!!

 

[bravehawks1]

Those .3 seconds exist on every or nearly every stoppage of the clock throughout the game just because of human reaction time. So to be technically correct, they should be checking the clock for accuracy every time it is stopped, but no, they only do it when you can see the tenth of a second during the last minute. Plain stupid.
Speaking of extra time outs, I think there were two other situations in the last two minutes where there were mini timeouts for coaches to talk to players. Not a well officiated game IMO.

 

[ZumaHawk]

Totally agree on the tenths of second on every whistle. No need to take 3 minutes to figure it out either.

 

[El Simbolo]

Yes, there are games where someone scores with less than 0.3. But unless they redo the clock right before they inbounded and ran a quick play like minnesotas drive to the hoop against us a few years ago or Tyus Edney for UCLA in 95 the clock issue doesn't matter. The game isn't a prescripted series of events that need a certain amount of time to play out. A team given either 21.4 or 21.1 will drain the clock down to 15 or some set time and then make their play

 

[nu2u]

Agree with El Simbolo - its ridiculously out of whack. You know its bad when the players are doing calisthenics to keep warm while the officials rack their brains over the course of 2 full TOs arguing over one tenth of a second.

There should be an easy solution for game clock issues. Designate one official at the scorer's table to be the video review monitor. That guy reviews the replay 2-3 times and makes a call. 30-40 seconds, Maybe have the head referee quickly confirm -one minute max. It's insane and getting worse.

 

[Joes Place]

Remember there are several games were .3 seconds mattered

...and that's equal to the reaction time of the scorekeeper.

If there's <10 sec left in a game, it makes sense to review it. >15 seconds and it becomes mainly irrelevant.

 

[pioneer44]

When the whistle is blown using precision timing no need to review but after a made basket under a minute to go it is stopped at the table and you can have human error...knowing you can't get off an attempt with 3 tenths of a second left it does matter...officials need the feed from the truck and most of the time are waiting

 

[Pepperman]

I thought this thread was going to be about the goal tending call. If we are going to have replay, shouldn't it be to get the call correct?

 

[QCHawkFan]

I thought this thread was going to be about the goal tending call. If we are going to have replay, shouldn't it be to get the call correct?

Or at the very least, the other two officials with better views of the play huddle up briefly and discuss it. You can't tell me in a million years that Bo Boroski (one of the refs who didn't make the call) watched that play and said to himself that was without a doubt the correct call.