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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
That's what makes this play so damn difficult imo. The rulesmakers want an official to watch a last-second scoring play in progress in his area and simultaneously verify that a TO request is actually coming from the head coach....a head coach that is usually out of his sight line. The FED issued a POE in 2004-05 that directed us to visually confirm that any TO request is actually coming from a head coach before granting it.
In this particular case, the official upon hearing the TO request had to:
1) Confirm that the ball was still under player control when the request was made.
2) Visually confirm that the TO request was actually coming from the head coach.
3) Grant the request.
4) then check the game clock, if possible.
There has to be some kind of time lag during that sequence, especially if the player shot immediately after when you started to look at the head coach.
Stoopid rule. As typified in this game, it sureasheck can put the officials on the spot. If the TO wasn't granted and the 3-pointer had been missed, you'd still be reading about it in the papers too. That's because the coach would be screaming about not getting her TO and a few seconds for another shot.
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Jurassic Referee: Great post. You should make a copy of this post and send it to the NFHS. The newer officials on this Forum probably don't realize that there was a time when, by NFHS rule, only a player on the court, when their team had player control, could call a timeout. The five offensive players were always within the visual confines of the officials, even if there were just two officials, which made it a lot easier to grant time outs than the present procedure, as described by Jurassic Referee. It can be even more difficult to grant the request during a play where the officials are watching a "crazy" play, for example, player trapped in the corner against the division line, player picks up dribble, and pivots. We're looking for out of bounds, backcourt, travel, illegal dribble, personal foul, player control foul, etc., when a voice behind us says "Time out". Why won't the NFHS go back to the old rule?