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Mike's reply to Andy raises a good point, call the police for fan threats. SCump's and Dakota's analyses of the situation are accurate in that the umpire needed to eject the coach and not react to the fans. The umpire is a "less" experienced ump with good potential and will learn from this ordeal.
In Omaha, the umpires association has inquired into this situation and find that the newspaper article is fairly accurate because they are reporting from the umpires report filed with the state school association. Most non-interested persons at the game beleive the umpire was in a good position to make the call AND made the correct call, but while dealing with the coach, the fans reaction had time to grow and become heated. Most of the really bad conduct by the coach was after the game was ended by forfiet because of fan conduct.
At this time, I do not beleive the coach has been publicly disciplined as the school says he was not ejected and therefore the state "sit-out" requirement does not apply. (The state requires any player or coach ejected must sit out the next game of the same level, in this case varsity.)
BUT the rumor factory says that the coach got a good dressing down and umpires have had no further problems with the coach.
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Wolfy
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