Penalty timeouts
 

Being mostly ignorant about these things, I have a question and a suggestion. There are a lot of threads talking about delays, and there are a few about resumption of play and huddles and substitutions and the like.

It seems that most of these transgressions are penalized by a technical foul, either immediately or after a warning. To anyone's knowlege, has NFHS ever given consideration to charging the offending team with a timeout instead?

Seems to me this would penalize most delays appropriately. Most coaches would try to avoid this penalty like the plague. Any opinions?

I have never heard that they were having that discussion - I kind of like the idea though.

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They already have a rule like that.....but that's in volleyball!:D

The FIBA rule for disqualification is like that. If a substitute is not ready after 30 seconds, a timeout is charged to the team. You only assess a technical foul if the team has no timeouts left