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Originally Posted by rei
I have to add that in the past, there were problems with umpires coming from smaller associations that don't service the top classification schools working with umpires from the bigger associations.
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That's the problem that we've had in our state playoffs in the past. Every year for the last 15 years we have had one of our schools from our area in the state finals and we have not been allowed to call that level.
Several years we had two schools in our area in the finals. So we have had guys calling our area teams that many times they have never called the bigger schools etc., and its not always a good thing.
One thing we have done well is letting our groups work together in the finals, but as you stated, often we get umpires working the highest level they have ever worked a game and it just happens to be the state finals in the larger divisions. Then our groups get left calling the smaller classifications since we have teams from our area in the higher divisions.
Hey its an honor anytime to call a state final, but sometimes I think its not fair to the larger schools to get stuck with the most inexperienced umpires.
Hopefully our state will work on that in the future.
Thanks
David