Re: It's a choice.

It sounds like things are getting a little out of control where you
live. This is high school football we are talking about. The players are
STUDENT athletes. They are supposed to be learning. One of the things
they should be learning is responsibility. If the coach wants to tell
his player, what to do, before the toss, fine. If he doesn't have enough
faith in his captain, to do the right thing at the toss, he needs to
find another captain. It seems to me, if a coach is worth anywhere near
50K, he should be able to communicate what he wants his decision to be. 
        As for coaches complaining. The problem I see is when you get into play
offs. You start dealing with teams that are used to doing it one way,
suddenly you do it another. The way you do it, is specifically
prohibited in the rules. When something goes wrong, it is just one more
thing to write about in the papers. I can see it now. Those refs were
terrible, heck they didn't even know how to do the coin toss right.


Jim R. wrote:
> 
> >The game is for the players.  Coaches do NOT call the toss.>
> 
> That's being Pollyanna-ish.  Some HS coaches in our area are being paid upward
> of $50,000 *EXTRA* to coach football.  They are NOT going to trust their
> livelihood to some teenager who might be thinking more of cheerleaders and back
> seats than what to do if they win the toss.
> 
> I've NEVER had a coach complain when I ask them what they want to do if they
> win the toss.  I WOULD have a coach complain if he unintentionally kicked off
> both halves.
> 
> So sue me.
> 
> Jim Rosenfeld
> 
> God Bless the
>     U. S. A.