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Originally posted by mcrowder
Deep - why do you say this is the coach's decision? Except at the smaller-kids' age, I don't talk to the coach at all on penalties. The captains make the call.
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Sorry for the delay in getting back with you. It it looks like there has been some good discussion going on.
Part of my original statement was "And despite what the book says, this is the coach's decision, not some 15-17 year old kid's. Be sure that the wing gets the info to the coach so he can signal his kid what he wants done."
So I'm going to talk to the captain, but the real decision is going to be the coach's, who is going to let his kid know what he wants to do. And the reason for that is I'm not going to put a potentially game altering penalty decision like this on the shoulders of a 15-17 year old kid, I'm going to put it on the coaches shoulders. The captain has enough to worry about during the game.
I think anytime you can get coaches and players information, they appreciate it. Where's the harm in letting people know what is going on? I've always felt that a coach doesn't have to like every call that we make, but they do have the absolute right to know what we are doing and why.
As one poster pointed out, tough penalty options are decided by the coaches in the NFL. I know that the Big Ten operates this way, too. They talk to the captain, but get the info to the coaches so they can make the real decision. They will even go so far on a really tough one as to walk the captain over near his bench and give him the options right in front of it. Those levels have more experienced players than we do, so it stands to reason to me that if they think this is a good thing, then we should be doing the same thing to help our less experienced, younger players.