Head Coach calling time out

STEVED21 · #1 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 02, 2005, 11:16am

Any of you New York guys get the ruling on the substitute head coach being able to call a TO if the real head coach gets run. Just heard this today and can't find it anywhere.

Snake~eyes · #2 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 02, 2005, 01:01pm

Substitute head coach cannot call a timeout. Casebook play 3.5.2 Situation B

AndrewMcCarthy · #3 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 02, 2005, 11:50pm

Steve- is it a New York rule that he CAN call TO?

I sort of remember that he could but the casebook says not- perhaps I was thinking of the state ruling?

cowbyfan1 · #4 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 03, 2005, 07:00am

When the Fed came out with this rule last year the case book said that the appointed HC could call T.O. This year it says he cannot.

JugglingReferee · #5 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 03, 2005, 09:35am

Timeouts are granted only from requests that come:

from a player on the field of play

from a team that has timeouts remaining (2 per team per half)

after a play is dead and before the snap to start the next play

The Roamin' Umpire · #6 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 03, 2005, 10:08pm

Quote:

Originally posted by STEVED21
Any of you New York guys get the ruling on the substitute head coach being able to call a TO if the real head coach gets run. Just heard this today and can't find it anywhere.

I'm in NY - the ruling we got agrees with the case book: the only timeout from the sideline comes from the original head coach.

Snake~eyes · #7 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 03, 2005, 11:51pm

Quote:

Originally posted by cowbyfan1
When the Fed came out with this rule last year the case book said that the appointed HC could call T.O. This year it says he cannot.

Yup, they didn't even list that as a rule change but oh well.

BulldogMcC · #8 (**permalink**) Wed Sep 07, 2005, 01:06am

At our clinic the same answer as last year was given, if the HC is ejected, the appointed HC can call TO, but the assistant can only do that in that specific circumstance. On the NFSH web page, they commented the Situation with the following:

Quote:

The following interpretation was changed by the Editorial Committee due to fact they did not want to continue to reward a team with the opportunity to request a time-out if the head coach had been ejected. This does not limit any player from requesting a time-out.

I have something to bring up at the next meeting.