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Never hurts to remind the coach's that a TO is a request and you have about three steps to complete:
1) hear the request,
2) validate team control,
3) Whistle the play dead.
RefDaddy, I think you'll agree with me, sometimes there's four steps, sometimes you not only have to hear, but see, the request, if you have your back to the coach and want to satisfy yourself that it truly is the coach (and not some fan/parent) who is asking for the time out.
In my opinion, I think the only thing worse than not granting a time out validly requested is to grant an unwarranted time out.
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