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I'll venture my interpretation to as why you can escape penalizing a team a timeout when the official MAKES AN ERROR and blows the ball dead thinking the coach wanted a timeout. Again a good pregame does wonders in preventing this from happening. (FED references). This is assuming a timeout is able to be called by that team. Erroneously granteing a requested TO when the wrong team has the ball or there is no team control is a whole different story.
5.8.3 A time out occurs when an official grants a coaches oral and/or visual request for a time-out.
For this to be true the coach must actually be requesting a TO which in our case he/she is NOT DOING.
CASE 2.11.10C: ACCIDENTAL WHISTLE. An official erroneously sounds his/her whistle while team/player A is in control. RULING: A1 ball for a spot throw-in nearest where the ball was when the whistle occurred.
Becasue the coach is not requesting a time-out is this not an accidental/inadvertqant whistle.
CASE 5.8.3.E: An official erroneously grants a timeout when a team cannot have one. RULING: Team B is entitled to use the timeout as it was granted. The timeout once granted cannot be revoked.
I think this is where we get confused thinking we must give the TO once we grant it. However is this case not in place to ensure that we grant the TO when the COACH IS ACTUALLY REQUESTING ONE when they have no TO's left (TECH)
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if we erroneously grant a TO when there is no player/team control or the other team has control. This as to penalize the coach requesting the TO that he cannot have (by charging him w/ one) even though we as officials made an error (induced by the coach and our lack of concentration) and giving the ball back to the team in poss. or going to the arrow.
This and the above case deal w/ a coach who is actually requesting a TO not a sitch where we THINK the coach is requesting a TO. I believe the inadvertant whistle covers that and if we erroneously blow the whistle for a "phantom" TO we should be allowed to treat it as inadvertant and play-on immediately with the team (who we thought requested a TO) having a spot throwin at POI.
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