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Originally Posted by NEohioref
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Sorry, but this is a load of crap. Don't know about Ohio, but elsewhere many asst. coaches are unpaid, so a financial penalty is absurd. And being forced to watch a ridiculous film is ludicrous and doing so is NOT going to change a person's demeanor. Just another Chicken Little/Homeland Security type of reaction to what should be a small issue.
Suspensions are appropriate and actually, keeping these people away from their team is one of the more painful penalties available.
Can someone from this area let us know how bad it really is and how it got that way? It was once bad in the rec ball game around here, but it became so because the umpire's would take the abuse and those who did eject would "be the nice guy" and never report it to the adminstation. Then when teams would run into a better level of umpire, they couldn't understand why the umpire wouldn't take their crap and dump folks when they deserved it.
If they have such a problem with ejections in this area, maybe the officials are partly to blame. This is where the "think skin" mentallity causes more problems for a group than the individual.
Around here, it is pretty good at the HS level. A coach was ejected recently and it had been so long, the assignor had almost forgotten which forms needed to be submitted.