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Originally Posted by glyphrunner
Tonight, we had a very interesting, while absurd, situation happen on the coin toss (and subsequent second half options).
Ref: "Home, you've won the toss. You have the option of kick, receive, defend a goal, or defer to the second half."
Home Captain: "We'll defer and defend that goal" (indicating the west goal).
Ref: "You only get one choice right now; kick, receive, defend a goal, or defer to the second half."
Home Captain: "Ok, we'll defend that goal" (once again indicating the west goal).
Ref: "Visiting captain, you have the option to kick or receive."
Visitor Captain: "We'll receive."
Ref: "Home captain, you'll be kicking from the west end and it will be white choice in the second half."
Both teams shake hands and go off to their sidelines. No qualms or questions at all. Then, when we're giving the options for the second half, Home Captain insists that they get to receive the ball even though Visitor Captain has already stated their desire to receive the ball. For some reason, the Home coach also insists that it should be their ball to begin the second half.
I know we did this correctly, but I just had to share the fact that there are still some people out there that don't understand that you don't always get to receive the second half if the other team received in the first half.
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Allowing a team, at ANY level, to screw up the coin toss is unnecessary and is usually a case of a WH saying "look how smart I am."
I ask if the team wants to defer to the second half, receive, ....and then I pause long enough for the captain to answer in one of the two choices that are picked in 99.9999999% of the games out there.
At the freshman/JV level I will say "defer, receive, and the other two choices will make your coach angry."