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Originally Posted by Mountaineer
...It sounds like younger officials who put the ball down on an oob even though the team is walking across the floor...
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You need to remember the context of putting the ball down. If I have a team that has been holding up the game because of these drawn out time outs, I'm going to give the first horn warning and another after the second. If they still don't break, putting the ball down and starting the count will suggest the urgency of breaking the huddle on time.
There are too many of these lower level coaches that think they get 1:30 on a full time out.
This is also something I address in my pregame talk to the coaches. Team properly equipped, identify coaching box, tell me full or 30, break on the first horn.
When I coached (back in the day) I will never forget the first time it happened to me - and it never happened again.