Bonehead call

[Adam]

Originally Posted by tbarron

I guess I had a brain fart. Team A had the ball and team B's coach called a timeout. My partner thinks thought this should be a technical but I can't find it in the rule book. Lil help?

And where does he get the idea that it should be a technical foul?
Case play 5.8.3E, swallow your pride and grant the timeout. We've all done it.

[representing]

this was a discussion I started earlier.

Once you grant a time out, even erroneously, it cannot be taken back. Charge the coach with a time out and start the time out period.

After time out, start the ball out-of-bounds closest to the spot of the ball when play was dead, and give the ball back to the team who had possession.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by representing

this was a discussion I started earlier.

Once you grant a time out, even erroneously, it cannot be taken back. Charge the coach with a time out and start the time out period.

After time out, start the ball out-of-bounds closest to the spot of the ball when play was dead, and give the ball back to the team who had possession.

You could make this into an accidental whistle if you know you were wrong immediately. But by rule if you grant the timeout incorrectly, you have to live with it.

Peace

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

You could make this into an accidental whistle if you know you were wrong immediately. But by rule if you grant the timeout incorrectly, you have to live with it.

Peace

And once you've blown the whistle, even though it's an IW, the ball is dead and either team may request and be granted a time out. So once you've blown the whistle, you're stuck with it.

[JRutledge]

Do not beat yourself up; we have all probably done something like this at one time or another.

Heck last night one of my partners (and a good friend) blew his whistle to stop play after a FT to bring in a sub. Then he yelled "SUUUUUBBB!!!" and no one was at the table. My other partner (another good friend of his and mine) started laughing at him big time without losing it all together. Because everyone was looking around trying to figure out who was at the table. And we clowned on him the entire way back from the game about what he did.

To his credit this was a doubleheader and this happen during the JV game. One of the kids started to go off the bench and go up some stairs to go with the varsity team. He saw this and assumed this player was going in the game. But when he blew the whistle, the kid was long gone (up the stair and out the gym). And this is a very experienced official and we had a very good laugh about the situation. You have to be able to laugh at yourself and have fun sometimes.


Peace

[Adam]

And if you don't charge B with the timeout, you've potentially given them an advantage without having to pay the proper price.

[bucky]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

And where does he get the idea that it should be a technical foul?
Case play 5.8.3E, swallow your pride and grant the timeout. We've all done it.

And what about NCAA? Thought the rule/case was same but can't seem to find it.

[Mechanicsman]

This happens to all of us. In heated situations near the end of a game, we want to grant the time out as soon as possible sometimes. We just have to slow down, make sure the head coach is calling the time out, and make sure his team has player control. 3 seconds could go by in this time.

[TonyT]

The coach gave a signal like a triangle to designate a play he wanted ran and the official thought he was giving the time out signal and blew his whistle giving him a time out. The coach says no I was calling a play I wasn't calling time out so they disregard the time out and put the ball in play again and resume play. I have seen this happen more than once.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by TonyT

The coach gave a signal like a triangle to designate a play he wanted ran and the official thought he was giving the time out signal and blew his whistle giving him a time out. The coach says no I was calling a play I wasn't calling time out so they disregard the time out and put the ball in play again and resume play. I have seen this happen more than once.

That's not the OP. OP was a coach actually requesting a TO at a time when he was not truly allowed to have one. It should be ignored, but if it's granted by error, it should be granted.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

That's not the OP. OP was a coach actually requesting a TO at a time when he was not truly allowed to have one. It should be ignored, but if it's granted by error, it should be granted.

Unless you did what I did the other night and grant a timeout that I was convinced that I heard but clearly knew I screwed up. I have no problem if people when people go with an IW if they clearly messed up. But if the coach or player is calling for a timeout and is not in the right situation to have one, that is a different story.

Peace