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Originally posted by MJT
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Originally posted by Middleman
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Originally posted by Patton
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You're right, any unused timeouts from the 2nd half carry over to overtime plus 1 timeout for each overtime period played. So if a team ends the game with 1 timeout, they will start overtime with 2. If they don't use any of those, they would start the 2nd overtime with 3, and so on...
[Edited by Patton on Oct 21st, 2004 at 02:39 PM]
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Not true.
Unused timeouts from OT periods do NOT accumulate. Each team gets one timeout per overtime period, plus any regular game unused timeouts.
If a team ends the game with 1 timeout, they will start the first overtime with 2. If they don't use either of those, they would start the 2nd overtime with 2, one for the OT and one carried over. When used, there is no distinction whether the timeout used was from the game or the OT so you may carry over all but one. A team that carries over all 3 of its regular game timeouts will never have more than four timeouts in any OT period, whether it's the first OT or the tenth OT.
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Where are you finding that in the book. It says nothing of that in 3-5 of the rule book, and in "resolving tied game" (in the back) it only states 3-5-1 "each team shall be permitted on additional TO during each OT period, plus any unused 2nd half TO's."
It doesn't say anywhere you cannot end up with more than 4.
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I agree with Middleman. The key wording in the "Resolving Tied Games" section of the rule book is "..shall be permitted ONE additional time-out DURING each overtime period....". It does not say 1 FOR each OT period. It means 1 additional IN each OT period plus those remaining from the 2nd half.
This exact question came up several years ago in NC. The NCHSAA Supervisor of Officials interpreted this the same as Middleman's has, and I agree. I was one of the few who initially thought this was the correct ruling.