Which Side of the Lane Line?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

It's not bending over backwards for me. Just a request that I've never had a problem fulfilling. Doesn't interrupt the game, doesn't take any extra time. Partners figure out real quick where they're supposed to go after the first horn based on where I'm standing with the ball. It's all rather ho-hum to me.

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Gotcha. I still believe that we have the right to tell them where we want to hand the ball to them. Again, this is why this is the way it is, we have no direction either way. So you are not wrong and I never said you were, but I am not moving unless it is made very clear to me what they are asking. The problem that request when I had it was very unclear and confusing. I am not taking a lot of time to try to figure them out on something where we are already set up.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not moving unless it is made very clear to me what they are asking. The problem that request when I had it was very unclear and confusing. I am not taking a lot of time to try to figure them out on something where we are already set up.

So, a head coach sticks his head out of his huddle and says "Hey, Mr. JRutledge. We want the throwin on the other side of the lane, opposite the table", after you, or one of your partners, had intended putting the ball in play on the table side of the lane (the way that you were oriented before the time out). That very clear, nonconfusing request will be honored by you?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

So, a head coach sticks his head out of his huddle and says "Hey, Mr. JRutledge. We want the throwin on the other side of the lane, opposite the table". That clear request will be honored by you?

No. I am handing it to them on the end line where I was going to be at the very beginning. He better tell the entire crew.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

That very clear, nonconfusing request will be honored by you?

Originally Posted by JRutledge

No. I am handing it to them on the end line where I was going to be at the very beginning. He better tell the entire crew.

Wait? You just implied that you would move if the request was made very clear to you? The definition of unless is except on the condition that, or except under the circumstances that.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not moving unless it is made very clear to me what they are asking.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Wait? You just implied that you would move if the request was made very clear to you? The definition of unless is except on the condition that, or except under the circumstances that.

Asking right before we are going to put the ball in play in not enough. And again, I do not have to.

Peace

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Asking right before we are going to put the ball in play in not enough. And again, I do not have to.

Peace

I agree...my requests all came at the beginning of the time-out.

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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I agree...my requests all came at the beginning of the time-out.

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As I said, I only had once in my career a request after a ball was made on a FT. I honestly did not understand the request and would have been really confusing to my crew if I all of a sudden switched sides of the lane. And the coach and player never made it clear what they wanted to do. They ask the question as if I was preventing them from running to the other side of the lane, which I was not.

If the requests are made before the timeout is started, I might consider such movement, but not when we are already ready to go.

Again, I am still waiting for that request that I have to be concerned with in the first place. I just do not see this ever become an issue either way. My situation happen over 15 years ago. I have worked a lot of games since then, if this was a problem or an issue, I would think someone else would make such a request, but they haven't.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Asking right before we are going to put the ball in play in not enough.

Agree.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Changing the location of the throwin a few seconds before the end of the timeout could (possibly) create a disadvantage for the defensive team, and an advantage for the offensive team, advantages and disadvantages not intended by the rules.