No Timeouts - end of the game

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by cdaref

Nevada, other than disagreeing about telling them the number of TOs remaining, do you agree that it is good awareness to know fouls and timeouts? Or do you just want to know when they are on their final time out?

I'm interested to hear this comment, and I appreciate your prior one as well.

I can certainly relate that (though I havent taken a poll) that my experience is that the other varsity officials up here in North Idaho all near the end of the game will at a time out or some other stoppage, check with the book and clock to make sure everything is right and also do a time out check and communicate time outs remaining to both coaches. But now that I think about it, I am not sure that this practice is as widespread as I believe it to be. And I certainly trust your input if you think this is a bad idea.

Now you've got me thinking...

I see no problem with gathering information and making sure the books jibe. But what is the purpose of telling a coach how many times-out they have? It can't be preventive officiating b/c telling a coach he/she has 3 T-O's doesn't prevent anything.