Question on Timeouts

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Yes - if you are OOB.

Oooooo, you got me. Good point. But JR and I were talking about a player who was already inbounds and falling OOB. So maybe I get a little slack for context?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Just got the Rules Proposals for NCAAW - already approved by the Rules Committee, just have to go to the Playing Committee...one of the rule changes addresses this time-out situation and says:

"A time-out shall NOT be recognized when an airborne player's momentum carries him/her either out-of-bounds or into the backcourt. Rationale: Often the player has already committed a violation before the time-out is granted. This play is happening too frequently in the game today."

Interesting...

I have not yet seen the NCAA Women's release you are quoting, but I willing to bet dollars to donuts that it was Barb Jacobs that made the inane (yes, inane and not insane, even though it would not be an incorrect statement) statement: "Often the player has already committed a violation before the time-out is granted." If a violation has occured, then any competent official is going to be stopping the game for the violation and not to grant a timeout request. As for "this play is happening too frequently in the game today," is utterly nonsense.

MTD, Sr.