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Originally Posted by stevegarbs
Thanks for saying this; as a softball coach and long-time football official, I found this statement hard to accept. The game belongs to the players. Coaches and umpires are there to make sure the players are doing it safely and fairly. It's not our game.
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Very true, but part of our responsibilities as umpires is to make sure the game moves along at a decent pace. If a coach employs tactics to hasten or delay a game, or to unfairly gain an edge over another coach, then that's when we need to step in.
It's going to have to be pretty obvious for me to do anything about this, though. As long as the game's progressing and it doesn't appear to be some cheap tactic to get more warm-ups, I'm not saying anything.