It's not a drastic change to the game. it's not as if we're asking for the FIBA rule. And crews mess this up very rarely. Normally, a coach is crying because we don't acknowledge a TO request made while we HAVE to be watching the action instead of him.

Make the players call it during live balls, and all this goes away. Hell, if the coaches would teach players to mirror their requests, this would go away as well.

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I agree with BatteryPowered. A head coach, or a player, may request a timeout, but only an official can grant a timeout. The distinction is important, especially in the heat of the moment.

I don't think this makes anything go away. You'll still have quick thinking players yelling they were calling time outs. Or the coach yelling TO and then yelling at you for not seeing/hearing A3 trying to get a TO.

I just can't see any net gain from making a change. All I see are headaches while teams adapt.

3 pages. Wow. Figured this one would be a one-response topic. "Whichever referee sees it."

I don't recall that happening under the prior rule.

I do like, in theory at least, the NCAAM rule -- for those who work under that code, how has it been working?

Thanks for all the replies. It sparked a major discussion between myself and the other officials involved. It seems to have done the same here. The whole thing started with you know you should have got that timeout before the foul. I was like really I didn't know there was an area for granting a time out

Agree, bob. I've been doing this long enough to have done it under both rules. The only problems before were the players not hearing and/or responding to the coach.

Coaches should coach, not play the game. Having them directly able to affect live action events is not coaching.

It's semantics. Nothing new around here, though.

The players weren't hearing the request, so they changed the rule to allow the referee to grant the coaches' requests directly. Now, when officials don't hear them, the coach has something to complain about.

And whoever said coaches should teach their players to mirror their request is exactly right. How many officials are going to miss when six people are asking for a timeout?

I know some that might! :eek:

It hasn't been a problem. I hear a Coach calling for a timeout and I look for the first player giving any kind of indication. Coaches have already adapted. And I pregame for us to be aware.

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It works very well. Don't have to take eyes off the players. Don't have to worry about hearing a coach....I wish high school would go back to it.

If it's a press in the backcourt, the guy most likely to be able to see and grant the time out would be the lead. The trail and C are with the press.

Frankly, I wonder why this is such a problem. I've worked under both systems, and it's just easier giving the coach the ability to call the timeouts himself.