KALAMAZOO, MI - Heads or tails?

It's a simple question that precedes every football game, but it's the type of inquiry Western Michigan coach Tim Lester wanted no part of during his four years as a quarterback in Kalamazoo.

For some teams, the four players who walk to midfield for the pregame coin toss represent the squad's leaders, but Lester doesn't follow that school of thought.

For the 2017 Broncos, there are no captains, only leaders - at least for now.

"I know the captain thing is a big deal, but the way I've done it is that I don't feel like four people is enough leaders on the team," Lester said during his weekly press conference Tuesday at Kalamazoo's Radisson Plaza Hotel. "Four people to lead 103 doesn't make any sense to me. We have a leadership group of 20 guys, and we'll rotate captains every week."

Lester will announce Friday the team's four players who participate in the coin before the USC game, and after the fourth quarter runs out on the Broncos' season finale, the players will vote on who earned the right to be called a captain.

"At the end of the year, we'll probably vote on captains, like who were the four that earned their captainship, and it will be a big honor for them, but as far as leaders go, we have 20," he said. "To single out four of them this early, I've just never subscribed to that, but we'll have captains at the end, and that will be an honor for them."

That those eventual captains weren't able to represent WMU at each coin toss throughout the season isn't something Lester is sweating, because he was never a fan of participating in that pregame ritual.

"Me as a quarterback, I hated going out there for a coin toss because I wanted to play catch until the last minute," he said. "When I came out of the tunnel, I was getting a ball and playing catch. I wasn't worried about calling heads or tails or picking a certain direction - that was just me.

"I never went out for a coin toss in 44 games."