T - another problem I see is that those who do get paid and are good umpires do not want to give back where they started.
Pete you can ONLY speak for yourself. Very, very few umpires in my local group 'got their start' at the LL level. Actually we have nothing to do with LL and it appears in MY AREA that those umpire sets are mutally exclusive.
As I have posted before I have never worked a LL game . . . I am not sure that I have worked with anyone in the last two years that got thier start in LL.
Working for free is noble but often misguided.
I started out at LL and then progressed to higher levels. I have not umpired college yet but that is in my future plans.
Peter, I started as a Plate Umpire in a VARSITY High School game. Our local training now considers that ALL umpires are 'first timers' and we teach umpiring from the start . . . the beginning.
Peter, it will always be my view that LL 'uses' people to umpire. The rewards are self motivated and those that are successful should be comended . . . however, I cannot support a corupt system that gives us people with the skills that worked this year's LL World Series.
T Alan
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