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For those of you who are on the side that says they don't carry over, the argument about which timeouts are removed from the number of timeouts makes sense.
Team A has all 3 timeouts remaining at the end of regulation. Team B has 1 timeout remaining. Game goes to overtime (NF Suggested). I will refer to remaining 4th quarter timeouts as *R* timeouts (for regulation. I will refer to additional OT timeouts as *O* for overtime.
To start the overtime, team A has 4 timeouts (3 *R* and 1 *O*) and team B has 2 timeouts (1 *R* and 1 *O*). Team A takes a timeout during the 1st overtime reducing there number to 3 remaining. Which timeout did they just take? The *R* or the *O*?
Team B does not take a timeout during the 1st overtime period. As the game goes to the second overtime, how many timeout does each team have? The answer is 4th Quarter timeouts + 2nd OT timeouts. But which timeout did team A take? One of there three *R* timeouts or the sole *O* timeout? It makes a difference in the number of timeouts they get to start the 2nd overtime.
Illinois carries them over from OT to OT.
EDITED:
If I were king for a day, I'd allow them to carry timeouts over from OT to OT to a maximum of 3 timeouts for any overtime period.
[Edited by mikesears on Jul 20th, 2005 at 03:10 PM]
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