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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
"Maybe this is a regional thing,but by rule it is not our job to have definite knowledge.It is a courtesy to give that information to a team...It's not even the scorekeeper's job to tell them other than asked".
That is plain and simply wrong,as many posters pointed out to you.That's all I've gotta say about this.
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What I clearly said is true. It is not our responsiblity to be telling the teams,
how many timeouts they have left. JR, you need to read a test, this has been a test question several years in a row. They always ask, "It is the responsiblity of the scorekeeper to inform the teams that they have one alotted timeout left?" This question has been false time after time, after time. It must be a regional thing if you feel it is necessary to inform teams of how many timeouts. If you do, it is your choice to do so. You are right, it is the duty of the scorer to inform the teams, "through the official." But it is not our primary or secondary responsibilty to inform them
on our own or we are not responsible to
figure out how many timeouts a team has and then report it to the teams. If the scorer,
never tells us it is kind of hard to inform anyone, don't you think? If you feel you need to be always telling coaches things and always answering all their questions, maybe that is why half the people here are giving Ts every second for something they say. I have more important things to do other than informing coaches what their scorers already tell them (you know they have people that work with their teams).
I also find this very interesting, you want to hold me to this but you had in this very same conversation an official that said he would, "be looking at the ceiling when he knew a team was out of timeouts and they were requesting one" all in the name of
game management. Now what rulebook is that in, but it illustrates that you and Tony want to make this personal, because I do not agree with your philosophy on officiating or other rule applications. Now if you want to hang out and shoot the sh!t with the table, so be it. But that is very much not taught and is not practice by many. I do not know many experienced officials that are at the table for anything other than when they are specifically called over. I have done about 5 games since this discussion started, and not one time was this ever a concern, an issue in a pregame or any kind of problem related to this rule as it seems to be so important to you guys. I belong to 4 different associations, went to about every single meeting and the only reason I missed any of the meetings was because of games I had, and this never came up as an issue. So yes, it must be a regional thing. If this is so important to where we have discussed this for the 1,000 time, then it must be. I have not even brought this up to any officials about this discussion and this is never an issue with them.
It just has to be a regional thing. Why else are you two making such a big deal out of this or any rule that you think the rest of us should apply?
Peace