granting time-out as player goes oob

[Rusty Gilbert]

The NFHS Points of Emphasis for this year include the following statement concerning timeouts:

3. Time-outs
Proper procedures for requesting and granting time-outs have become an area of concern.
A. Granting Time-outs. Coaches attempting to call a time-out during playing action are a continuing problem. When player control is lost, officials must concentrate on playing action while attempting to determine if a time-out should be granted. Coaches should recognize that a request for a time-out does not guarantee that a time-out will be granted until player control is clearly established. Officials should not grant a time-out until player control is clearly established.

While this does not speak specifically to the situation as in the original post, we could logically conclude that since "Coaches should recognize that a request for a time-out does not guarantee that a time-out will be granted until player control is clearly established," they should expect that a time-out will be granted when player control exists AND a legitimate/ valid request for a time-out is made.