Bumping Time Outs ...
 

It appears that I will have my article "Preliminary Signals – What Happens Next?" published in the next issue of IAABO Sportorials magazine.

Today, I decided to review the past six articles that I've had published in Sportorials to see it they withstood the test of time, and I made some changes to reflect some new rule and mechanics.

In one article, "Time-Outs: When The Ball Is Dead, We Must Be Alive", I had written the following:

During this procedure it's important that the granting official not “bump” the timeout reporting procedure over to the nongranting official, even if the nongranting official is closer to the table.

While this has been true in NFHS and/or IAABO mechanics for over forty years, IAABO made an unannounced mechanics change last year:

The ruling official may communicate timeout information to official nearest to the scorer’s table to report to the official scorer.

So, it appears that we can now "bump" timeouts.

I only became aware of this change at the very end of last season when I worked with a rookie official who was having difficulties with timeout administration mechanics.

I went over detailed timeout administration mechanics with her and then decided to check what I had covered with her by reading my IAABO mechanics manual when I got home, only to discover that "bumping" is now allowed, so I emailed my discovery to her.

My state and local IAABO boards do a poor job of announcing minor changes in the mechanics manual.

Were any other IAABO members made aware of this change?

What is the proper procedure in NFHS mechanics?

I cannot find a specific statement of doing this and I do not think the NF takes a particular position on this. But I would not advocate anyone doing this as it can cause some confusion if everyone is not seen or heard properly. Take the timeout to the table if you called it and maybe if both officials recognize at the same time, then the one closest to the coach or table should take this reporting. But the NF Manual does not state anything that says you pass this or "bump it" to another official that did not call. The only thing that is stated is that the non-ruling official should communicate to the non-calling team what kind of timeout was granted. Even to me, that is not necessary.

Peace

Lazy Is As Lazy Does ...
 

Agree with JRutledge 100%.

Confusion during "bumping" can lead to the wrong team being charged a timeout, with much greater repercussions possible near the end of the game.

Keep it simple, you grant it, you charge it.

There was a good reason why both the NFHS and IAABO did not allow "bumping" for at least a half a century.

Probably why our local interpreter and state interpreter didn't tell us about the change.

Silly IAABO, making a change only so we don't have to sometimes walk approximately forty feet to the reporting area and then back to the endline.

And now, under certain conditions, we can "bounce the ball across the lane"!

Lazy is as lazy does.

And keep in mind that this post was written by a septuagenarian official with severe arthritis in his right foot.

As far as I can remember: NBC, NFHS, CCA (NCAA Men's/Women's), and IAABO, 'Rubber Banding has never (with apologies to the late J. Dallas Shirely) has never been allowed. That said, I have 'Rubber Banded' for as long as I can remember, 🤣.

Abbot and Costello: I'm a Bad Boy video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXMHaYoc9J8

MTD, Sr.

Allowed in NCAAW.

Bob:

I retired from women's college after the 2007-08 and now that I think about it, the Women may have gone to it either a one or two years before or after I retired.

There is so much information that I have stored away, I sometimes access the wrong file in my head, lol. Now you have me thinking that the Men have also changed and I know just the person to ask.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. The more I think about it the CCA Women's Manual allowed 'Rubber Banding' for years before I retired because that was why I was a 'Bad Boy' for so many years officiating H.S. basketball, LOL! I was 'Rubber Banding' for years before the 2007-08 school year.

The Spinners - Rubberband Man (1976) ...
 

If "Rubber Banding" is the same as "bumping" it was allowed by our Catholic middle school assignment commissioner, who had to deal with games scheduled an hour apart on game nights.

We were also allowed to bounce the ball across the lane, just break through the crowd to report fouls (not necessarily to move all the way to the reporting area), and to only switch when convenient (always on shooting fouls).

But that was "only" middle schools, and only Catholic middle schools in one very specific local Deanery, not high school varsity games.

Our high school assignment commissioner (who assigns high school varsity, junior varsity, freshman, and public middle schools) and our local interpreter would tell us all the time, "No bumping timeouts".

The Spinners - Rubberband Man (1976)

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