Better to be left back than left behind, amirite?
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Out of curiosity, why is this bad? Or even significant? It works out the same, doesn’t it?
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Men:
NCAA Tournament: West Virginia/North Florida | Sunday, Nov. 24 | 5 p.m.
Women:
NCAA Tournament: Wisconsin (@ Irvine, Calif.) | Friday, Nov. 22 | 5 p.m.
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Most of the issues come at the end of the half and game. In an International game… the referee has a soft ending, meaning he adds time for injuries & time wasting & also if a team is in their attacking third will allow the play to continue.
In the NCAA model… time is time. Sure the clock is stopped for goals, cards & injuries… but let’s say a player shoots and the ball is still in flight and the ball enters the goal after the horn… it does not count. In the International game it would as the official time is with the center referee and he would extend play to finish off the last attack.
What about a foul called giving offensive team a free kick right outside the box with 10 seconds left? Won’t happen in NCAA… but an International referee would allow that free kick before ending the game.
I had an incident last month where a team was down a goal and while the player was about ready to kick the corner kick… one of the opposing players fell awkwardly while my watch was buzzing to indicate time was up. NCAA that move from the player whether intentional or not would’ve ended the game as there is a delay in when the game clock would stop.
In my game, I allowed treatment, player was removed from the field and I allowed the final corner kick to be taken and ended the game once the ball went out of bounds.
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That makes sense, thank you. So a NCAA-style countdown clock, but with a “soft” ending (clock hits zero but the game doesn’t end until the ref calls it, doing so according to international rules), would be okay?
Letting the last attack play out is good, but I also like knowing how much time is left.
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In HS field hockey, the clock keeps ticking and only stops if a goal is scored. However, any time there’s a defensive penalty in front of the goal (like the penalty area in soccer), the offensive team gets the soccer equivalent of a corner kick. The fun part is if time runs out in a period (or the game) while a corner is happening. The clock gets turned off and the teams keep playing until the offense either scores or loses possession.
Its not uncommon for a corner to result in a defensive penalty (if the ball hits someone’s foot or shin, its a penalty on the person who gets hit, and since a corner usually results in the offense driving the ball into a bunch of clustered defenders, the defenders’ feet get hit a lot), leading to another corner, still off the clock. I’ve watched teams get 4 or 5 corners after the clock runs out. Which seems weird in abstract, but its basically the same thinking as not letting a football game end on a defensive penalty.
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This is how HS clock works… clock counts down but stops at two minutes and then the official time is with the referee.
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