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I give even less options than Wade on a coin flip. I assign the team to my left "heads", and the team to my right "tails", then I flip. Same every time, less chance of mixing anything up. A coin flip decision doesn't require giving anyone a choice; just a 50/50 chance. (Besides, the coach can go back saying "he" didn't lose, I did.)
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I do the same on the coin flip.
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Thats also my preferred method especially in championship play... sometimes though I do pick someone to pick at the showcases and whatever. In championship play, no goofin around with even that.
I agree that most upper level coaches immediately identify you as "just another goofy umpire" type if you go into all these unnecessary things in the pregame. Coaches that have been around 10-15+years - what are you really telling them when you go into your diatribe (NFHS mandated statements aside)?
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Had a double flipper a couple of weekends ago. First time I ever had a partner who did the double flip.
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OK stupid question...what the heck is a double flip?
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My guess is that the umpire assigns heads/tails to the teams and whoever wins that flip calls the second flip.
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First, Blue has to show us his great-grandfather's 1890 era Spanish gold coin, This side is heads, this side is tails. Who wants to call it? Coaches waste 10 secs hemming and hawing you can call it. No, you're younger, you call it. No, you're from out of town, you call it. Finally that is settled.
The winner of the first flip earns the right to call heads/tails on the second flip to decide who is home or visitor. He wins, and announces he wants to be visitor. Other Coach says we could have saved a couple of minutes if you would have stated your intention before this double flip. Just one flip please. Catch it in the air and start the clock. |
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Thanks for the explanation.
Flipping to decide....who gets the call the flip? OK that sounds more than just a little goofy.
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we have a guy like that in our backyard - uses a 9/11 coin, and goes to great lengths explaining about it - and I bet there is somebody out there who has worked with this guy at a national somewhere... Me, I use an Eisenhower Dollar - no explaination needed.... I have, however, occasonally used a dollar gaming chip from a certain establishment in Las Vegas ![]()
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