Violation or no...would it be if?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Freddy

There is this statement of expectation expressed in 7-5-7a: "Any player of the team may make a direct throw-in or he/she may pass the ball along the end line to a teammate(s) outside the boundary." Lacking any other permitted activity or caseplay or interpretation to the contrary, it seems as though your situation did not fulfill this expectation in that a pass did not occur.
But I reserve the right to be wrong while I look for other pertinent info on it.

You are placing way to narrow a definition on "pass" in this rule.