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[ck4597]

pre game quiz question...

2nd/12 B22. The score is A21-B24. Team A has no timeouts remaining. A88 catches A15's legal forward pass and is downed on B's 15. During the down, A65's helmet comes off after legal contact. A65 looks at the clock, grabs his leg and falls to the ground before the down ends. The game clock shows 0:09 in the fourth quarter.

Delay?
unfair act?

[refbuz]

I think that you can end the game with the 10s run off if we have positive knowledge that his helmet came off during the play and not a result of the "injury"

[frank.malone]

Are You completely sure that A65 is not injured? If so, then you can end the game if B agrees with the 10 seconds substraction (it's quite sure B will agree) but, in any other case you can't go with the 10 seconds.

In my case I would not substract the 10 seconds. The player A65 will go out for the next down because the clock was stopped due the injury. I am not a doctor, I am an official, so I can not know really if the A player was injured or not.

[Kalle]

Rom's opinion on this is: "The officials are not in the business of determining whether or not a player is faking an injury. One consideration is legal liabilily. A college official is now considered an independent contractor. It is reasonable to assume that if an official is slapped with a lawsuit, there will be no support from the conference, the NCAA nor the CFO."

Result is A 3/5 @B15, clock on the ready.

[sj_31]

Agree with Rom. All you have is 3-3-5-b. Have fun with it, but it's all you got.