Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

MByron:

I agree with your 99.99%, except that I would be dollars to donuts that soccer ejections are greater that basketball and baseball combined and could be more that all other sports combined. I remember a study that the OhioHSAA did about eight years ago. Soccer ejections in Ohio one Fall totaled twice as many as all other Fall sports combined. Fall sports in Ohio are: soccer (both boys' and girls'), girls' volleyball, football, cross-country (both boys' and girls'), golf (both boys' and girls'), and girls' field hockey.

The year after that study came out I red carded the Head Coach of a boys' jr. varsity team before the start of the game because he dropped a couple of F-bombs on me in front of his players because I told him that the shine guards ALL of his players wearing were not legal; they wouldn't have covered the shine of an 8U girls' team. The best part was that this coach was an OhioHSAA Class 1 soccer official who had gone deep in the OhioHSAA tournament in previous years and was the current president of our local H.S. soccer officials association. I stopped officiating soccer a couple of years later because of my knees and the fact that sports officials whose only sport is soccer are clueless when it comes to sports officiatin.

It just may be that H.S. soccer coaches are starting to get out-of-hand in Ohio again.

MTD, Sr.