Recent Game - 1st Ejection of the year

[Tim C]

I want to make one thing crystal clear:

NCAA Baseball is the last college sport that is run and controlled by the coaches.

They make the rules, they interpret the rules, and they run their games.

It is the main land of "get the call right" umpiring philosophies and Durham is 100% correct when he talks of the "approachability factor."

HOWEVER, in the Pac-10 (which is really the PAC-9 since the University of Oregon does not field a D-1 team) umpires are told "assistant coaches do not exist."

They still are there to tell batter runners: "Take two!" and take their batting gloves or shin guard after a safe hit.