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Originally Posted by Old School
I fail to see the glaring error. A timeout shall not exceed one minute. At no place does it say a full timeout is 45 seconds. A warning signal is sounded for the teams to prepare to be ready for play is sounded at 45 seconds. That does not say to me that the timeout is over. That means to me that a team still has 15 seconds to discuss stragety to their players.
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You said, "Even if the teams are out there and ready to play, the ball doesn't go back into play until the 2nd horn." This is the glaring error. It goes against the rule I quoted for you.
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Originally Posted by Old School
You ever wonder why there's not an official warning in the rulebook for the team taking too much time coming out of the timeout?
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Nope. There's no warning because there's the RPP to take care of it. It does the trick.
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Originally Posted by Old School
I think it would be helpful and it gets the point across without you having to burn one of the teams to do so. The rules suggest we put the ball in play while the one team is not ready. That goes against the ethics of fair play which we are there to ensure, imo.
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No, the rules tell you to put the ball in play when one or both teams don't break the huddle at 60 seconds. If one team is ready, and the other is not, then the team that is still in the huddle is breaking the rules to get extra coaching (or rest) time.
If you don't like the rules as written, perhaps your reffing the wrong.... Wait, never mind.