Cobra Snaqwells wroteCoaches "request" timeouts. Officials "call" timeouts if the request is made at an appropriate time. It's a semantic issue that seems to draw fire everytime someone gets it "wrong" in here. The funny thing is, the case book makes the same semantic "error," if I remember correctly. Officials call timeouts? Can you find one spot in either the rule or case book where it says anything about officials calling timeouts? Anyone who thinks that this is an error needs to actually read the rule book and see that the what the official does when there is a timeout request is called granting a timeout. Apparently some people have imagined the word calling replacing granting and therefore consider it incorrect to say that a player called timeout when in actuality they were the one who didn't know the proper term.
Adam Look, by rule, coaches and players can only request a timeout. The only people who can actually "call" anything have whistles; that's where the semantics come from. Like I alluded to before, though, it's not a big deal except to some.
grunewar Snaqwells wroteLook, by rule, coaches and players can only request a timeout. The only people who can actually "call" anything have whistles; that's where the semantics come from. Like I alluded to before, though, it's not a big deal except to some.We can put it in the "pet peeve" thread....if it's not already there. These cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine....... 😉
Mark Padgett grunewar wroteThese cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine....... 😉 These posts complaining about cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine. 😉 Also, these posts complaining about complaining about cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine. There - I beat ya' to it. 😀