30-Second Time-Out

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

We, the members of our Board's Membership Committee, care because our Board has 35 candidates that need to pass the Exam to become new members of our Board. We also have 250 current members with 10% of their rating and ranking, which determines the level and number of games that they are assigned to, based on how well they do on the Refresher Exam.

You are missing the point. I am saying that even if you know what the bench personnel. Even if you know what the rulebook says, there is no way to enforce this other than "Guys you have to stand." Then in the real world, most competent officials do not care what the bench players are doing at all. Usually what happens is all players stand and this is never an issue. The reason the requirement is for players to stand is so there is not a long delay in getting the game started after the timeout. The NF has gone back and forth on whether standing is what is required or not.

Your answer is also the reason that these tests do more harm then good. Now you are going to have some young official that feels they have to go out of their way to enforce this and likely T someone up because of the way this test is worded. Every year I hear of an official that feels they need to take some extreme action based on something that was in the test. Because after all, most tests do not ask you how to actually enforce the rules, they only test whether you know what something means or the exact definition is. But that is a conversation for another day.

Peace