Excuse me if this has been brought up before but after watching the> men's championship I noticed the R1 was on the same side as the> coaches/players. Okay - no problem, probably works better for TV. But> that puts the R2 - the ref responsible for subs - on the wrong side of> the court (teams and book). Do they (NCAA) use a "sub" ref to handle> subs? I didn't get a chance to watch a sub to see if I could pick up> what was happening. I did notice one extra guy sitting on the attack> line (Pepperdine side for game 1). I would assume that he/she would> not be allowed to have any input on anything other than handling subs.>
Any input?
Dunno. Good question.
A PAVO ref that doesn't have to worry about doing matches on national> TV
You and me both.
PS. I could replay the final and check the timer but anyone know how> long the break was between games 2 and 3 for the men's final? And is> that time consistant with 'normal', non-televised matches?
3min is the normal between game interval. That said, though, TV matches, esp live TV matches take a lot of production consideration into intervals. Timeouts are usually the things getting lengthened for TV commercial breaks if modification is done, but 3min is usually quite a bit of time in TV land. I've seen 1R's wired with earpieces to hold for commercial, for instance.
Perhaps others lurking here may know and can chime in on this interesting question.
