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Old Fri Feb 16, 2007, 09:27am
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Originally Posted by kycat1
What if you really have a brain fart and Team B has no time outs left near the end of very tight game. They get trapped and you hear time out from the bench area and grant the time out. Coach says it was not him/her. Could have been a bench personnel or a fan right behind the bench. What do you do then? If you grant the time out eventhough you should not have because the coach really didn't ask for the time out, are you going to make them take it and also issue a T for excessive time outs? I am not sure if this is fair and in the best interest of the game!
Any thoughts if you really blow this?
See above.

Why should a coach be believed just because he says he didn't request?

If we do our job and look to the coach first, we won't have this problem.
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