What should I do?

[FVB9]

Coach, I suggest emailing your Assignment guy and suggesting it. There are a lot of factors that go into the umpires you receive. First and foremost, your Association you chose may have 30-40 schools they cater to in the Spring. You need to realize that those schools take priority over youth travel games, which means on some days you may get umpires who are not up to par. Also, most travel games start at 6PM, which opens the door to umpires who cannot do the traditional 4:30 HS starts.

But to get back to your question as to whether or not you should contact your Assignment Chair...yes, you are the paying customer and you have that right. Someone made the post that it's like a once in a lifetime request...that's pretty true. Your assignment chair may not honor it...that's his right. But he may want to know that someone out there is not cutting it. There's a rule of thumb in my neck of the woods...if a HS coach calls the Assignor and complains about an umpire and wants to never see him again, our Assignor has been known to send him back the next day (under certain circumstances). Everything works out, and the scratch list remains blank.

In other cases, an umpire may have been flying below the radar, unseen on the field by peers or evaluators, and this info needs to be known.

Bring it on Coach, but not out here.