Tlk about OOO (boogers)

[David B]

Originally posted by His High Holiness

It is not useless. Coaches selecting and rating umpires is a great system for producing umpires who know how to suck up to coaches. Why should umpires study rules when studying "How to win friends and influence people" gets you ahead faster. In this case, the coaches got the predicted results. They should be happy. I am sure the coach of the winning team will select this umpire for the next year.

Peter

As usual Peter is exactly right when dealing with coaches/umpires.

The situation in our state, the head coach uses the same umpires for all of his HOME games.

The coach from our area was told, you can expect these umpires when you get to the game and they were there.

The sad thing is that the coach for the school has won numberous state titles - been coaching for at least 30 years etc. etc.,

Makes you wonder how many were legitimate and how many were skewed in his favor by his buddies.

And as an aside, when I was in TX we had the "coaches pick" system for playoffs. It never affected me, but I did see it affect other umpires in the way they handled the coaches, especially the coaches of the big schools.

Thanks
DAvid