Coin toss speech

[ajmc]

"One size never fits all" especially if you handle both High School and Youth levels. One thing I've found helpful is to tell the Captains that I expect them to control their players, and we (the officials) will give them the opportunity to do before we get involved. I advise them it's a lot less expensive for them to calm a player down, or send him to the sideline if he's losing his composure, than for one of us to do so.

Thereafter I've found the response usually good when one of us tells a Captain, "Talk to (or calm down) # so & so, he's getting ahead of himself". Often juvenile justice works a lot more directly than standard protocol allows.