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Carl Childress (quoted):
Someone posted that surely those guys were "idiot umpires" who had called their last NCAA game, implying they were over-the-hill. I think just the reverse is true. Conference supervisors are looking for umpires who can handle explosive situations with dignity and aplomb.
Carl, I am uncertain as to the accuracy of indicating "someone" called them "idiot umpires". Can you provide that source of statement? As I can best recall, you may have taken a quote out of context.
Peter O. may be the author of the misquote that you mention. I tend to recall that Peter was referring, not to Jon Bible, but to umpires in a hypothetical situation that Peter had just described. It was a hypothetical situation whereby an umpire told an irate coach that another umpire was wrong. Both umpires insisted that they were 100% right, and a decision had to made as to which umpire's decision would be followed.
Peter appeared to be trying to make the point that 2 umpires cannot have "equal juridistiction" over a call. I believe a previous post on the board had referred to the effect of "equal jurisdiction" and Peter was merely refuting it.
This is one of the problems with board censorship. Due to the deletion of Peter's post (and those of others), you could not check his post before making your statement in order to insure that you were accurate. The rest of the readership cannot check the post either to see if it was a misquote (accidental or otherwise).
Just my opinion,
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