[RonRef]

Originally Posted by NJRefJohn

... I had a very interesting jr. high school game last night. I laid out the 4 choices, the away team captain upon winning the toss said, "We want to kick." I asked, "Is that what choice you want to make?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure you don't mean 'defer'?"
"No, we want to kick."
"You may want to ask your coach for help with this. If you kick now, that means you will most likely kick now AND starting the second half."
He looked at his coach, and the coach said, "We want to kick."
"Ok then."

At the beginning of the second half, score 0-0, the home team stated they wanted the ball. When I asked the away team which way he wanted to kick, the coach said he wanted the ball. After a conversation that went on for what seemed like 15 minutes (I'm sure it was really a minute), the coach still was not getting the idea. He kept saying, "I thought if we kick in the 1st half that we get the ball in the 2nd half."

Hopefully it was a lesson learned for him.

That is why this coach is coaching at the JR HS level! A rule book costs less than $10!