No timeouts...but coach wants one

[ChrisSportsFan]

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee

AS Bob Jenkins said, it's not a mechanic, it's a rule.

NFHS rule 2-11-6- "The scorer shall record the time-out information charged to each team(who and when) and notify a team and it's coach, through an official, whenever that team is granted it's final allotted charged time-out".

If the scorer doesn't do his job and inform the official so that the official can then notify the coach, well, that's too bad. It's a scorer's error- not a correctible error.

Case book play 10.1.7 covers the second part of the play explicitly:
10.1.7SITUATION: A1 requests and team A is granted a time-out late in the fourth quarter. Team A has already used it's three 60-second time-outs and it's two 30-second timeouts.
RULING: Team A is granted the time-out and is charged with a technical foul. No indirect foul is called to the head coach.

If a player/head coach asks for a time-out, you cannot refuse that request if the request was made while that team either had player control of the ball or the ball was dead.



[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Feb 22nd, 2006 at 11:26 AM]

Since I can't perform the rule, but I am able to conduct the coinciding mechanic, I suppose that's what I'll continue to do. Thanks for your help though. Actually I think we're saying the same thing in a different way.