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[Rich]

I wouldn't have let you get away with not shooting the technical throws. You would've gotten T'd up for not giving me a shooter, though. Of course, I haven't worked rec ball in years, so I'm thinking about the HS varsity level here.

We constantly remind coaches how many timeouts are left, ESPECIALLY when a coach is out of timeouts. The coach is supposed to communicate with his players. If someone calls for a timeout, and is entitled to, we call it. Who knows, maybe the team wanted to buy a timeout with a T? Likely not, but it's not my job to be a mindreader.

That said, I like the football rule better -- you call one and you don't have one, we simply don't grant it. If we do, accidentally, we start the clock immediately upon recoginizing that the team didn't have one. At some levels, it's a delay of game penalty.