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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Notification is in the rules for a reason. To say there is no penalty for failure to notify is ludicrous - how do we penalize improper game management? Can't be done.
I also do not believe that I am playing with semantics - the rule book specifically says head coach and I believe it means head coach. As refs, you frequently state that you won't give the time of day to an assistant, so I think it is a two way street here. You deal with the head coach and hold him responsible.
And none of you have addressed my full original question. In a previous thread, the majority of posters agreed that failure to give notice to a team 3 minutes prior to the end of halftime meant that you should not give the T when the team fails to show up on time, and some suggested they should be given some warm-up time if they came out as soon as notified (http://www.officialforum.com/thread/1398). (In the interest of full disclosure, if you go there, you will notice that I didn't know this rule for halftime - we don't get this in MS ball so I never paid any attention)
Why treat notification regarding TOs differently? A coach can keep track of time and time outs, but notification is still mandatory in both cases. Or from another part of the rules, if you violate the boundary plane twice but were not properly warned the first time, is the second a violation?
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1) My copy of the rules book just says "notify a team and its coach ..." -- not "head coach". 2-11-6
2) The "notify at half-time" is listes as a requirement of the referee 2-4-4. The "notify of last TO" is a scorers requirement 2-11. Thus, the difference in what we'd do. Now, if the scorer tells the official and the official doesn't notify the team, you might have an argument.
3) A thorw-in boundary violation (not touching the ball or a player) is only a T after a warning. That's clear in 10-1-10.