I believe the PA announcer should count every second of the entire game. That would create some tension wouldn't it? 1...2...3...4...5..6...7..8...9...10..11...12...13..14..15..16.17...18...19....20...21...22...23...24...25...26...27..28...29...30......etc. The PA announcer may attain celebrity status. How fun.
It's funny that the two rules that soccer fans rail against in college soccer (timing and subs) are two of the three that people say they would like to see change to get them to start watching the game. The eternal struggle...
The counting to time seems necessary if the ref is supposed to disallow a goal that is in flight. They can’t watch the clock and the ball. I personally would like to see them go to FIFA rules for time but understand the count given the current rules. I think US high schools don’t use stoppage time but clubs do after a certain age. So most players can handle FIFA rules, As for substitutions, playing 20 games in such a short span is a good justification for more subs...but the current rule allows for too many subs. Ironically, the OT rule likely counters the benefit of more subs as so many games go 20% longer and key players end up playing 110 minutes. Coaches abuse the substitution privilege and the game becomes choppy to the point of detracting from the sport. That you see many players playing 90 or 110 and then a handful accounting for the multiple subs indicates the sub rule isn’t providing rest for all players. And it rarely is used for ingenious tactical substitution. Why not go to 3 subs? If kids went to college and played soccer with only 3 subs it may be that a much larger percentage quit. Practicing all of that time and never getting on the field while balancing studies and the loss of social life would likely cause a lot of attrition. (Or a lack of participation altogether...how do you recruit a player to sit in the bench for 2 years?) Also on that subject, the number of red shirts would go up dramatically. That might create other unintended outcomes. So, limit subs? If subs were more limited, except say for injuries after 40 minutes, you would see 10 injuries in the last 5 minutes of every game.