Re: It's a choice.

"Guardenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

This sort of begs the question ....

If these guys make $50K to coach high football, what do
they get paid to TEACH five or six high school classes?  %^D


--  Scott