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Originally Posted by PAT THE REF
Thanks TCump84,
I am planning on it. During the PBUA, what did they have you do? Drill type stuff? Officiate real games? mock games?
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PAT...They are real games, either high school or college (naia, d-3, juco). There are a couple days of on field instruction where they modify some umpire school mechanics. You also spend a couple afternoons in the cages. Other then that, you work about 6-8 live games and evaluated on your performance. Every morning you spend about 1-2 hours in the classroom going over different situations and proceedures. The evaluators also go over some notes from the previous days games.
With the school aspect, Harry's instructs using both live games and control situations. While Jim's only spends timie with control situations. Whoever you ask is going to be biased to the school they, or someone they knew went to. Gather as much info as you can about each, and make your choice. Just remember to go into it ready to learn, neither school has the time to waste with students who "know it all."