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Originally posted by Texoma_LJ
First year official and I dont think they even make a white hat that would even come close to fitting my head, however, 3 pages on a coin toss seems, well...silly. So... I went to the officials manual and had to look for myself what the book says.
Under coin toss they tell you that the choices to be given are:
(1)Kick or receive
(2)Defend a goal
(3)Defer to the second half
Cant understand what else needs to be said. The captains have a responsibility to know what to do, that is why they are a captain.
Give them the choices, let them answer, and play ball.
Geesh
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Yup, first year officlal. Yup, the manual spells everything out.
Wait until you throw on the white hat on a Friday night and the captain says kick instead of defer. Then accept the captain without questioning what he means.
Then see what your relationship is with the team that now has to kick off twice. Of course you'll be fine in the first half until you tell them that they get to kick again in the second half. I guess you'll have showed them just how smart you are and how stupid they are.
Remember the Phil Luckett incident in the NFL game a few seasons ago? Phil, by the book, was completely right in what he did. Did it help him during the game and in the post-game opinion of him?
I am a control freak when it comes to the coin toss. Many officials catch the coin in the air -- I don't -- I let it hit the ground like the guys on TV. I also make sure the teams get what they want, for 3 reasons: (1) It's going to affect the rest of the game and may influence my relationship with the league, school, etc., and (2) it's what everyone expects and is the right thing to do, and (3) I don't have a microphone on us showing the world that the kid screwed up. It would be a pretty hard sell to anyone that a team wanted to kick off both halves unless they specifically wanted to do so. It doesn't happen often enough.
But other referees can do what they want. I WH every Friday night and will continue to be preventive -- if there's going to be problems, I'd like them to happen AFTER the game starts.
No reason to close any thread, either.