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"player under center is permitted to stop the game clock legally to save time"
If the clock isn't running, then therefore the player is not legally stopping the clock to save time; e.g. intentional grounding is the correct call.
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But why is it illegal when it still meets all the other legal definitions of spiking the ball while not under pressure?
It feels to me the added this rule to clarify/reiterate that spikes were legal - not to declare a spike when the game clock isn't running illegal. Declaring something legal doesn't necessarily make other related things illegal.
I was assuming it was illegal at first because I was taking other sites' interpretation of the rule at face value.