The NCAA Has Clock Problems

[MsProudSooner]

This surprised the heck out of me.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014579226_apbkcncaamatteroftiming.html?syndication=rss

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

Wow, that's bad/cheap.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Wow, that's bad/cheap.

Bad, cheap and consistent with everything that the NCAA has done over the past few years.

 

[stanley11]

The NCAA could have borrowed the money from Cam Newton if they were too cheap to pay for this technology themselves. This is definitely a black eye for the tournament committee.

 

[Edmond_Sooner]

The NCAA rep said they have never had a coach question the clock in all the years they have done it like this????


Are you kidding me?


This is another case of old grandpa NCAA and his foolish old school ways...

 

[MichaelM]

The NCAA rep said they have never had a coach question the clock in all the years they have done it like this????


Are you kidding me?


This is another case of old grandpa NCAA and his foolish old school ways...

Not quite. That quote was from a high school official whose state does use the system.

Amazingly, the system is used for the final rounds of the NCAA's Division II and III tournaments, Costabile said. Some states have adopted it for their high school championships.

"We just feel it takes the reaction time out of it," said Butch Powell, assistant executive director of the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission, which began using the system at its state tournament about eight years ago. "We've never had a coach question the clock in all the years we've used this."

 

[Edmond_Sooner]

Not quite. That quote was from a high school official whose state does use the system.

Thanks for that...guess i scanned it a little too quick

 

[campbest]

Agree the NCAA needs to address this issue.

However, not surprised the Seattle Times ran this story...the UW fans need to get over it, the clock had nothing to do with their loss. They just flat gave away that game.

 

[Edmond_Sooner]

Agree the NCAA needs to address this issue.

However, not surprised the Seattle Times ran this story...the UW fans need to get over it, the clock had nothing to do with their loss. They just flat gave away that game.

Excellent point

 

[bocabull]

Seattle has a whining problem.

The title of this thread should be Washington/Seattle has a whining problem.

When officials go to the video to review time they are looking for when they raised their arm to stop play. Whose to say they didn't raise their arm slightly before they blew the whistle or at the exact same time?

Time on the clock only matters in the last minute and I don't even recall a glaring error made after they review the time. This system does nothing to address the final minute when the clock is stopped after a made basket and time is precious.

Bogus story and a total non issue.

 

[j2d2]

Re: Seattle has a whining problem.

The ncaa has many, many more problems of a more serious nature than the clock one. The clock problem merely reflects its lazy, complacent, dictatorial, incompetence.

 

[OrlandoSooner]

Re: Seattle has a whining problem.

The ncaa has many, many more problems of a more serious nature than the clock one. The clock problem merely reflects its lazy, complacent, dictatorial, incompetence.

Agreed. No reason not to fix it other than your reasons given above.

 

[Dem Coltz]

Re: Seattle has a whining problem.

The title of this thread should be Washington/Seattle has a whining problem.

When officials go to the video to review time they are looking for when they raised their arm to stop play. Whose to say they didn't raise their arm slightly before they blew the whistle or at the exact same time?

Time on the clock only matters in the last minute and I don't even recall a glaring error made after they review the time. This system does nothing to address the final minute when the clock is stopped after a made basket and time is precious.

Bogus story and a total non issue.

Wow this post is dumb. Everyone saw clearly that split seconds mattered in that UW-UNC game, and the MISTAKE could have easily been avoided. The difference between 0.5 and 1.1 is huge, you can barely catch and shoot in 0.5. I don't get what you're saying, who gives a **** why the Seattle paper wrote the article, the important thing is that the NCAA doesn't even care enough to make it's most important games precise. Why keep human error when it adds nothing to the game? The clock doesn't need lag time if it can be helped.