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So it looks like pretty much no one, myself included, likes the timeout-while-diving-out-of-bounds rule (weren't refs supposed to be going a little tougher on this a couple years back?) But I have to disagree with King on another of his complaints, calling timeout on an inbounds play.
It seems to me that doing that is analagous to football, where an offense can call timeout if the play clock's about to expire or the defense suddenly jumps into something the QB doesn't recognize. No one seems too concerned about that, so why is it such a big deal if a player calls a timeout to avoid a 5-second call on an inbound?
As for Billy Packer, count me among the haters. He knows the game, no question, but I always feel as though he's trying to make sure we know how much he knows. And I can't stand the way he sometimes picks out one minor aspect of a game and harps on it repeatedly (did anyone see all the alleged palming violations he did during Arizona-Villanova?). It feels like Nantz is his enabler sometimes, too, never calling on him to defend his position.
