[JRutledge]

If I am the Referee, this is probably the time I will step in. I would not want to try to make a decision that is going to feel like I undermined an official, but part of your job there is to take control of things that could happen incorrectly. I would be adamant if an official is about to misapply a rule if they clearly did not know that rule. I have been in this situation in college where if I would have allowed my partner's to go the way they wanted to (and I did not make the call), we could have gotten suspended or fined. It is not something I ever want to do and the Referee usually has some unwritten authority here, I would have never let that just happen. Judgment ruling that I did not see, is one thing. But a rules mistake would not go over well.

In this case just see what happened first. And if the calling official insists that the timeout took first, what can you do? This is not a rules situation like the TC situation described.

Peace