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Post by pikachunation on Apr 2, 2018 19:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by timdaye on Apr 3, 2018 16:11:46 GMT -5
I used to be an NCAA soccer referee and this is one of the rules I think is better than FIFA. With FIFA timekeeping, no one really knows how much time is left. With all this technology, we leave the timing of the game to an official and his wrist watch. Are you kidding me? And, added time is soooooooooo arbitrary. 2 min of added time could mean, 1:45, 2:00 or 2:30... no one really knows. If the NCAA rules makers were smart (and, from what I remember, they weren't), they would just put out a pamphlet that says something like this:
We are playing by FIFA rules with the following exceptions.
1. Timing will be like this...
2. Substitutions will be like this...
DONE! It could be printed on a 3x5 index card that officials could keep in their pockets.
The FIFA law book has 17 laws in it. Back in the day, the NCAA rules makers were so arrogant that their rule book used to only have 8 (this has since changed to 17 to conform with FIFA).
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Post by timdaye on Apr 3, 2018 16:12:13 GMT -5
I used to be an NCAA soccer referee and this is one of the rules I think is better than FIFA. With FIFA timekeeping, no one really knows how much time is left. With all this technology, we leave the timing of the game to an official and his wrist watch. Are you kidding me? And, added time is soooooooooo arbitrary. 2 min of added time could mean, 1:45, 2:00 or 2:30... no one really knows. If the NCAA rules makers were smart (and, from what I remember, they weren't), they would just put out a pamphlet that says something like this:
We are playing by FIFA rules with the following exceptions.
1. Timing will be like this...
2. Substitutions will be like this...
DONE! It could be printed on a 3x5 index card that officials could keep in their pockets.
The FIFA law book has 17 laws in it. Back in the day, the NCAA rules makers were so arrogant that their rule book used to only have 8 (this has since changed to 17 to conform with FIFA).
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Post by cj on Apr 8, 2018 12:41:05 GMT -5
As I understand it, the scoreboard clock will count up from 0 to 45 in the first half and 46-90 in the second half with the stoppage time kept separately. Silly. In today's day and age, with all the money involved, everything should be transparent. Too often, I have heard claims that some referee had manipulated the clock to favor one team or the other by either shortening the game or lengthening it. I am sure these protests have no basis in facts but why even get involved in that. In 2018, we easily have the technical ability to have the referee have a button and control the scoreboard clock. For you boys and girls not old enough to remember, until the 1960's in the NFL, time was kept on the field and the scoreboard clock was unofficial. When the AFL was formed in 1960, it boasted of two innovations over the NFL. One was the two point conversion and the other was the scoreboard clock was official. Not wanting to show they paid any attention to the AFL, the NFL refused to accept either of these "innovations." They set up a system where one of the officials, I think the field judge, had a button to operate the scoreboard clock. It was not until the merger talks became serious, that these improvements in the game were adopted by the NFL.
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