Coin Toss Options

[TXMike]

Originally Posted by glyphrunner

Let's put it this way, we've had things like this happen before where a kid was told a very specific thing by his coach and he got confused. His options were explained clearly and then he made a different choice. His coach then blew up saying we had convinced his captain otherwise.

Our policy is to not influence the players' decisions. We are not there to decide what happens in the game.

You are there as part of the educational process. And by letting him do something that you know is stupid without taking a minimal amount of effort on your part to be sure he really wants to be stupid, seems almost like dereliction of duty to me. And if you had done as some suggest (i.e. confer with the coach before the toss) you would know what he intended anyway.