Varisty coach knows the rule #1

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Yup. I had an eerily similar situation last night with the "I'm just a fan" varsity coach during a freshman game. I wish I had just ignored him.

One of the best feelings I ever had was once (about 4-5 years ago) doing a boys summer tournament for a very good program and their head coach, who is well known, was not the HC for this contest as he let one of his assistants handle to task.

He instead was seated at the end of the bench where he felt he had carte blanche to say whatever he wanted. Midway through sentence #2 I whack him and inform the HC of all his repercussions. All the poor SOB stories of, but he's not even part of this game and blah, blah, blah. I tell the HC "It's your bench, and your problem, not mine."

Many officials, because of this coach's reputation, would not have done this. To this day, and I have had some similar games like this in the off season, when he sees me work those games he takes a seat in the stands and acts like any other deranged parent/fan/spectator.

[ga314ref]

...seems to equate the bounce to at the disposal.

However, in this case the trail would like have had to turn his head to verify that it is the head coach making the TO request. I would have no problem in granting the timeout and explaining this is why it was granted.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by ga314ref

...seems to equate the bounce to at the disposal.

Poor wording by the writers there. Fortunately, 4-7b clearly states that it is not at the disposal until the ball is caught.