Timeout Interpretation Conflict

[tempestos]

Last year, NFHS changed the rule to allow head coaches to call timeouts. However, there is a discrepancy as to whether a replacement head coach can call timeouts if the original head coach has been ejected.

Case Book 3.5.2 Situation B says that the replacement head coach "shall not be permitted to request a time-out."

However, in the NFHS's Football Guide 2005 on page 7, there is an article titled "Flashback: 2004 Rule Changes." In the section on timeouts, it says "a head coach who has been ejected may designate a replacement head coach who may assume the timeout duties."

Have associations squared these 2 conflicting interpretations from NFHS? If so, how?

[BktBallRef]

If the replacement wants it, we would give it to him.

[waltjp]

2004 Case Book
Part 1, Situation 10, Pages 5 and 6

Team A wishes to call a time-out: (d) the head coach has been ejected.
Ruling: the game cannot continue until a responsible person is assigned as the "new" head coach and only the "new" head coach can request a time-out.

2005 Case Book
3.5.2 Situation B

Team A wishes to call a time-out: (d) the head coach has been ejected.
Ruling: the game cannot continue until a responsible person is assigned as the "new" head coach, but this person shall not be permitted to request a time-out.

[ref18]

The timeout must come from a player on the field to be recognized, and it must be recognized prior to the snap of the ball.