WTF Rule Change? Spiking the ball

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MSCE09

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Watching the Mormons beating up on Texas and the announcers said that there is a new rule change that a spiked ball inside 3 seconds of an end of a half no longer stops the clock. Why would they make that change? Seems pretty silly to change.
 
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MSCE09 said:
Watching the Mormons beating up on Texas and the announcers said that there is a new rule change that a spiked ball inside 3 seconds of an end of a half no longer stops the clock. Why would they make that change? Seems pretty silly to change.
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Yep, not sure why they changed it. It is dumb.
 
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That doesn't make a lot of sense. This puts a lot of pressure on the clock operators. Just a dumb rule. I guess you can still call a timeout if you have any left.
 
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Wait..what?

Are you saying if someone is driving to try and tie or win a game, and they get up to the line and try to spike it before time runs out, if it's 3 seconds or under they don't stop it?
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Wait..what?

Are you saying if someone is driving to try and tie or win a game, and they get up to the line and try to spike it before time runs out, if it's 3 seconds or under they don't stop it?
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Yep. Retarded. Not sure of the thinking.
 
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they could have made it worse and ruled it intentional grounding -
 
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Is it actually a rule or was it just the delay between the stop clock motion and the clock runner actually stopping the clock resulted in the 3 seconds running out?

(There often seems to be about a second or two delay between the stop the clock signal and the clock runner actually stopping the clock)
 
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TrueOrange said:
Is it actually a rule or was it just the delay between the stop clock motion and the clock runner actually stopping the clock resulted in the 3 seconds running out?

(There often seems to be about a second or two delay between the stop the clock signal and the clock runner actually stopping the clock)
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Its a rule
 
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The rule makes sense.

Typically after an incomplete pass, a second or two runs off the clock before it stops. It's sort of been a gray area at the end of games where refs will sometimes review the tape and stop the clock on the *EXACT* second the ball hits the ground. Sometimes, the refs do this, and sometimes they treat it like they do the entire game (allowing a second or two to run off).

My guess is that they enacted the rule to eliminate the 'referee discretion' aspect of it. If you hike the ball with under 3 seconds, it should theoretically take off at least a second to run the play, and maybe another 1-2 seconds of clock run-off. Instead of leaving it to the individual refs to decide how to treat the situation (with many refs taking different positions), they set one uniform rule across the board.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
The rule makes sense.

Typically after an incomplete pass, a second or two runs off the clock before it stops. It's sort of been a gray area at the end of games where refs will sometimes review the tape and stop the clock on the *EXACT* second the ball hits the ground. Sometimes, the refs do this, and sometimes they treat it like they do the entire game (allowing a second or two to run off).

My guess is that they enacted the rule to eliminate the 'referee discretion' aspect of it. If you hike the ball with under 3 seconds, it should theoretically take off at least a second to run the play, and maybe another 1-2 seconds of clock run-off. Instead of leaving it to the individual refs to decide how to treat the situation (with many refs taking different positions), they set one uniform rule across the board.
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You lost me at "the rule makes sense."
 
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TrueOrange said:
Is it actually a rule or was it just the delay between the stop clock motion and the clock runner actually stopping the clock resulted in the 3 seconds running out?

(There often seems to be about a second or two delay between the stop the clock signal and the clock runner actually stopping the clock)
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It's a rule apparently. The actually situation didn't happen because BYU had 5 or 6 seconds, but the announcers started talking about the rule change.
 
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I don't really care, but given our history, you can bet the house UT will be screwed by this at some point.
 
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