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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
You didn't answer the question, Jeff. It was simple and direct but you evaded it.
1) What college games were you assigned just because you were available?
While a couple of junior colleges might take a warm body, you get those assignments once unless you show merit. I know you don't work Northern Illinois, UIC or Northwestern. North Park is assigned by a group you don't belong to, so which college did you work simply because you were available?
I wasn't trying to be funny. I wished you a Merry Christmas before and you ignored it. When I questioned your comment you jumped on it. That seems ironic.
If Merry Christmas doesn't work, Happy Kwaanza!
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I have answered this question a 100 times. I am not trying to be you. I have no desire to work D1 College of any kind at this point of my career. If you have not noticed the one thing I hate about the baseball season is I can schedule a game and half of them will not be played. So I am not going to knock myself out trying to work college baseball. I work enough college basketball and HS where I travel many more miles. I also have never joined the local college baseball umpires group that Fetch belongs to because the meetings are held in the middle of the basketball season. I would rather go work a good basketball game than try to go 3 hours to get a shot at one or two D1 college games. One of these days you will actually get that. If baseball is your passion that is great, it is not my passion. I love doing it when it is happening. I am just not going to make an extra effort to do it. So when I do college games the places are often very close to my house. If I do go any real distance from my house, I am working with someone I know or doing a favor. I have been to Milwaukee, South Bend, Galesburg, Davenport and Moline for college basketball games. I would never think to go further than DeKalb for any college baseball game. I make more for a 2 hour basketball game than I will a 2 and a half our baseball game. There are also more fans at those college basketball games and those basketball crowds are not very well attended compared to many HS games. I know Rich F and I had a similar conversation about working college basketball. Rich is much happier working college baseball and not trying to chance a college basketball dream. I have no baseball dreams beyond working a decent HS schedule and I like and prefer to stay very close to home. I have traveled a little, but I do not like to do that very often. I will be working a Christmas Tournament next week and that will be much more important to me than working any D1 baseball game.
Peace