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Originally Posted by Dakota
NCAA is an entirely different animal. Even at Div III, you are probably doing a bit of traveling to the game. It is unlikely you are living in the same neighborhood, going to the same church, having kids / grand kids in the same schools with the NCAA coaches. One of the umpires in our association coaches a high school JV team and a summer travel team. Several coaches when my kids were still in school I got to know as parents before we had a coach/umpire relationship. What do I do? Shun them? Ridiculous.
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Ironically, I live in an area where I do, in fact, encounter players, coaches and fans of not one, but three of the colleges I service. (1 JUCO, 1 DIII, and 1 DII.) It has never been a problem, though, that I can recall.