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Originally Posted by eyezen
Beyond that he went to explain that in a college game with media timeouts, 99/100 times the coach will always want a 30 sec timeout. The only time he will ask for a full is when he knows he's out of 30's.
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That's because the coach only gets one full (60 second) time-out in a typical TV game. Each team gets 4 30's (up to 3 carry over to the second half) and only one 60-second time-out. So you can bet that the coach wants to save that full time-out until crunch time when he needs a little extra time. (For example, in the last 30 seconds of regulation in a national championship game when you want to make sure your players know to give a foul before the offense gets to midcourt. Oh wait, I guess Memphis didn't do that. . .
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Besides that, the first time-out request of the second half automatically becomes a media (75-second) time-out. So you know the coach isn't going to use his/her full time-out at that point.
Should you ask anyway? Probably. But I know several guys who don't.