coin toss

[Rich]

Originally posted by cmathews
I give them their best option first, and occasionally if it is the obvious choice I tell them what their best option is, just like the officials manual says to do. My point is that if you don't give the winner of the toss all 4 of the options, you are potentially taking an option away from the toss loser... If A wins the toss and elects to kick then B has the option of which goal to defend, which should be their right as it might make a difference... if you don't allow A to choose to kick, then you have given an advantage to team A...and we shouldn't do that...

I will tell the captain what the foul is and what we are going to do, but I don't give an option to a defensive captain when his choices are (1) TD or (2) penalty.

I give the choices to the captains at the coin toss as so: Would you like to receive, defer to the second half....and I slow down at that point to almost ensure I get something from the captain at that point. I will finish the sentence eventually. Also, if a team says they want to kick, I'm going to explain the consequence of that choice because they probably mean "defer". When I'm working kid football, I get the coach's preference in the pregame. And I wish we did that in HS games, too.

--Rich

--Rich