One of those days.....

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

No, you can't violate the book, but when you are not the UIC, and you don't know until after the game the coaches agreed on this (though I admit I had a feeling it wasn;t the team manager they dressed), please tell me what you can do about it? I could walk off the field, or run both managers, or throw my partner under the bus, or do all those things and look like such a rube I won't get a game within 100 miles of my house.

Hey, I'm not telling you what to do. All I'm saying is that I would have stopped play if I returned to the field and magically there were 9 on defense again. I would have asked my partner what happened, tried to persuade him that we couldn't play that way no matter what the coaches agreed to, and if he did not agree I would tell him that full responsibility for the matter lay with him.

As for going to the rule book, if you can do it quickly I have no problem with it.

[rngrck]

I'm sorry Johnny, but this is a classic example of what can happen when you lose control of the game to a point where now the coaches are running the show!! Never let the coaches intimidate you guys.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by mbyron

As for going to the rule book, if you can do it quickly I have no problem with it.

I do! There's no frickin' way I'm going to bring out a rule book. The rule book is here (Ump25 points to his head). If a coach believes I've misinterpretated (nod to G.W. there) a rule, he has a legitimate recourse: a protest. Period.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by UMP25

I do! There's no frickin' way I'm going to bring out a rule book. The rule book is here (Ump25 points to his head). If a coach believes I've misinterpretated (nod to G.W. there) a rule, he has a legitimate recourse: a protest. Period.

Yup. The rules are what I say they are.

"Coach, if you don't like it, protest."

If your state doesn't allow protests, then I guess the coach is screwed. Play ball.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Yup. The rules are what I say they are.

"Coach, if you don't like it, protest."

If your state doesn't allow protests, then I guess the coach is screwed. Play ball.

My state is irrelevant, because I don't do FED ball.

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by UMP25

I do! There's no frickin' way I'm going to bring out a rule book.

No rule books on the field, fully agree. Proves nothing, solves nothing, creates and endless controversy. Let them protst.