Re: It's a choice.

Bill Smith wrote:
> 
> >>> OK this should be good. How can this be interpreted to read that a coach
> who is "well away from the toss" is making the choices? Does he have to shout,
> from thirty yards away? <<<
> 
> Now I KNOW this guy has never officiated, 

Well as the old saying goes. It's not what we don't know that's the
problem. It's what we're absolutely sure o that just aint so.


as football coaches can glare thirty yards. 

LOL


 Many coin tosses, as well as penalty administration, are dialogues
> between player and bench. Why this continual denial of reality?

We were discussing what the rule is. How you chose to enforce them, is
between you, and whoever assigns your games. At some point the coaches
may get involved. When that happens I just have this policy of being
able to tell them, I do what it says in the rule book. 



> 
> btw, I think discussion has failed to pick up on the earlier idea that to defer
> is to use the zeroth option.

Is zeroth even a word? Can I use it in scrabble?


> 
> Bill Smith
> Burlingame, CA