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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by zebraman
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by zebraman
If we've done our job and one team calls an excess time-out and none of the game crew figures it out until after the ball is back in play..... how asleep at the wheel are we?
In that case, I'd say play on and let the opposing coach give us a couple lashes with a wet noodle.
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You give them the T as soon as you figure it out. That's the rule. Are you saying that you don't, Z?
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Correct, because the day that my entire officiating crew and the scoring crew and the coach (who was notified when he took his last time-out) don't notice that an excess time-out was taken until we are playing again is the day that I hang up my whistle. And I'm not having a T in my final game.
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Naw, this is one where you get the scorer that screws up and doesn't tell you when a team used it's last one. Then 2 minutes later, she beeps you and says "oh ref, btw blue has had 6 TO's". If you never had something like that happen, then you're the luckiest ref in the world. 
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Maybe at a Jr. High level, but I just can't imagine that happening in a varsity game. I always make the visiting scorer sit right next to the home scorer and have them compare notes as often as possible. I also think that us refs have a pretty good "feel" for when a team has taken more than 3 time-outs. I start asking the scorers for how many are left during the time-outs when I get to that point. That's one of the areas where I overcommunicate on purpose. Knock on wood, but I've never had that happen and just can't imagine it. Both scorers would have to be asleep along with my crew and the coach of that team. That would be one heck of a group nap.
Z