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Originally posted by His High Holiness
So the schools pay the umpires but have little influence over who works the games. HMMMM.
I think that it's great that you have been able to repeal the law of the marketplace. Perhaps you should share your ideas with former communists who would like to reestablish command economies. I'll bet that they would pay you big bucks to tell them how to repeal the laws of the marketplace. They have been trying for 80 years and it ended in catastrophe. But the great Rut can be their salvation, yet.
You are such a genius, Rut. Your talents are wasted in the Chicago area. You are ready for the World stage.
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This is why I and many do not respect you. You do not know how to see things at all thru other people's experiences. Just because something is one way in your little small area, does not mean the rest of the world is dealing with the same issues.
Yes, the schools write the checks for the umpires, it is their event. They write the checks for the playoffs, but have
absolutely no say whatsoever about any of the assignments the IHSA hands out. A Regional or Sectional host cannot tell the playoff assignor, "I do not like this guy, he cannot work this playoff game." During the regular season the schools pay, but they do not assign the games or decide who goes where in many cases. There are parts of the state that have assignment given by schools, but what I am talking about does not apply to them. I am being very specific to the Chicago area or those schools that have an assignor hired by the conference. As a matter of fact, I have known assignors to send an umpire right back to schools where the coach complained about that very umpire. Now, will some assignors cave to what the coaches and schools want? Of course they
can but do they actually do that? That is not an automatic or a given just because a school has a problem with a particular umpire. And it really does not happen on that level in baseball, mainly because there are not the numbers to be picky about who goes where. Maybe in some other sports where they really have a lot of guys they can move around without disrupting coverage of games, but not in baseball. If a school bans too many umpires, they will not have anyone at all that is capable to work. Especially at the varsity levels. I even know a basketball assignor that has said to his conference, "If you do not like the officials I send, then hire someone else. But do not tell me that any coach knows officiating better than me." Guess what Peter, he is still working at that conference. Go figure.
Peter, you just show how "ignit" you really are. Because you think that everyone is in jeapordy of losing something because the school complains or has a problem. If we use your logic, then we might as well cave into the schools complaits about calls that deal with safety, because they do not agree with your call. It is not like coaches are very knowledgable about the rules and how they should be applied. But since they are the customer, let us just listen to them instead of what the rulebook says or the intepreters want a situation to be handled. Well maybe for a guy that has no "backbone" and allows the schools to dictate everything, that might be a legitimite problem. But here, that is not an issue where I am. I guess we all have our own crosses to bear.
Peace