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Originally posted by gordon30307
I understand your point and I kinda sorta agree. However, in a Fed game if you run across a coach who knows the rules (highly unlikely) that PU is the boss and that we are not supposed to overruule one another how are you goiung to handle this?
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Good question. Let's start by stripping out the what-ifs and getting down to reality.
We have a big dog working the bases and a little dog on the plate. The little dog screws up and the big dog asserts his authority. In REALITY, I cannot imagine a little dog standing up to the big dog when the big dog escalates to the point of threatening to neuter the little dog. I have yet to meet a little dog that stupid.
So, in REALITY, the little dog always caves and changes his own call. Remember, this conversation between the big and little dog takes place in private. Even in the situation that I mentioned above, I was away from the players and coaches when I told the little dog that I was not going to allow him to F$$$ up a game with a call like that. The coach, therefore, sees the little dog change the call.
Let's assume a third world situation where the coach knows that the big dog really made the decision. Since there are no protests in any FED area that I have worked, the coach is SOL. I cannot imagine this happening in NCAA ball, but assuming it did, the protest would go no where. Remember, the fig leaf of a changed call was maintained because the little dog never objected to the change in public.
Now, we get down to what happens if the big dog is wrong when he overturns the little dog. Simple, the big dog's career is OVER or it's back to kiddie ball for him.
I once had a big dog BU overrule me on a rules issue where I was 100% sure that I was correct. Because I knew my place, I quietly acquiesced to the big dog and subtly informed the offended coach that he could protest if he wanted. The offended coach did not protest (he was winning by 5 runs and did not want to unnecessarily antagonize a known big dog) and the game continued.
After the game, I called my assignor about the situation. The big dog quietly retired at the end of the year and is now coaching.
Peter