Post by wcathomer on Oct 7, 2019 13:55:35 GMT -6
What is the point of running the clock in blowouts?
Is it because people don’t want other teams to run up the score or teams don’t want kids to get hurt in a blow out situation? Is there another reason that I’m not seeing?
I can see the point in it at a lower level of competition, jr high and jv, but at a varsity level it just seems to me that running the clock during a blowout is kind of a cop out and I wish teams would follow the rules and finish the game as it should be. Most of the time, in smaller classes A, 2A, that is when lower class men or backups get in the game and I feel like those kids deserve to get game time experience with normal rules and normal clock. If we are going to just run the clock why not just call the game? Just curios what others think about this issue and maybe there is a great explanation why it is done this way. Or maybe it doesn’t happen enough to worry about it.
Is it because people don’t want other teams to run up the score or teams don’t want kids to get hurt in a blow out situation? Is there another reason that I’m not seeing?
I can see the point in it at a lower level of competition, jr high and jv, but at a varsity level it just seems to me that running the clock during a blowout is kind of a cop out and I wish teams would follow the rules and finish the game as it should be. Most of the time, in smaller classes A, 2A, that is when lower class men or backups get in the game and I feel like those kids deserve to get game time experience with normal rules and normal clock. If we are going to just run the clock why not just call the game? Just curios what others think about this issue and maybe there is a great explanation why it is done this way. Or maybe it doesn’t happen enough to worry about it.
