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Originally posted by His High Holiness
At the lower levels, the coaches and ADs rule the roost, or at least have a lot more influence. At the D1 level, a conference office hires the entire conference umpire staff. At lower levels (DII down to high school), individual schools and school districts hire the umpires. Therefore, at the lower levels, the coaches and ADs have a lot more say. He who writes the checks, writes the rules.
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Maybe in your little small area that is true, but not true in my area or a lot of other places. The schools pay the umpires, but they do not decide who works the games or not. They might have imput if they like a guy, but I know many assignment chairmen that make sure those reasons are legitimate, not just *****ing because they lost a game. So that philosophy might be all the rage in your neck of the woods, but does not apply at all where I live
Peace