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Originally Posted by GoodwillRef
This is the exact reason why we (the crew) should be able to wear the black pants when the weather and field conditions dictate...not the state office.
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Just the history of state offices being over-controlling for no good reason. Same reason we can't wear black shirts to umpire baseball, even though we wear navy for nothing but HS ball in my circle of umpires. I have to buy and maintain navy just for HS games.
They aren't the people outside in the pouring down rain. I specifically asked this question of our state office and they had changed the wording in their reply to "cold weather pants" and told me they were never intended to be worn for rainy conditions on warm days. They've always been sold as foul weather pants, not as "cold weather pants."
Since we have to wear long sleeves with the pants here (that's their condition on them), I had to go buy a thinner long sleeve shirt (the Smitty Elite shirt is nice) to wear earlier in the season so I could wear the pants instead of knickers in the rain. How much sense does that make?
While I'm posting this, I'm most annoyed at the rules interpreter coming to the state meeting this year and telling us that black shorts and short socks were approved for use and then on 9/10 a memo came out from the state office saying that neither of these items were approved. Well, we spent about $150 on shorts and matching short socks based on what the state office's representative told us -- now they expect us to *not* wear them? I mean, we only bought them for nonvarsity competition (although I've seen them on varsity crews in the highlights on TV, we wear knickers or pants only for varsity games). Why do they care? Do they have such strict dress codes for their coaches?