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The coaches should also be smart enough to be giving a visual as well as verbal TO request.
Around here, after meeting with the team captains, we go and shake hands with the coaches. During this greeting I have been asking the coaches to visually and verbally indicate when then want a timeout. I would like to report that this request has been very effective, but only about half the coaches give a visual signal when they want a timeout. I got my arse chewed out a while back from a coach for not giving him a time out. Told him I didn't hear or see him requesting it. So, the next night, same coach, I'm lead and hear what sounds like time out. (His team has the ball) I look over at his bench and see him looking like Moses parting the Red Sea. I blow the whistle and yell time white, Coach looks at me as I'm moving to report the time out, he says I didn't call time out, I was saying widen out. Me, oh sorry, ball back to white and we keep moving. (Most of the coaches around here visually request time out with a fist in the air, or the "T")
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