Associations feud

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

The schools know who the good umpires are. the athletic directors should ask the coaches and call up guys from a list supplied by the coaches. Plenty of guys would be willing to work the games.

Either that or bring some in from Oklahoma. These guys think they are more important than the kids playing the game. They are not needed.

Yeah, let's end the feud between associations with coaches competing to bring in homers.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

competing to bring in homers.

this is a lot of it!!

[Rich]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Yeah, let's end the feud between associations with coaches competing to bring in homers.

It's amazing the stupidity on this board tonight. Let's have each coach pick an umpire and have them change gear after 3.5 innings so each coach gets *his* guy on the plate for half the game. Let's flip a coin to see who calls the plate first, too.

Sheesh.

[CT1]

Our state has eight officiating districts, each of which has several hundred officials and is administered by a District Director. The State Office assigns playoff series (best 2-of-three) to the DDs, who then pick the crews (all 3-man, BTW) to officiate.

Although coaches may "scratch" 3 umpires statewide, they have no other input into the selections.

[MD Longhorn]

TASO IS the state organization. Why in the world these schools thought to use COLLEGIATE umpires is beyond me. UIL and TASO don't get along perfectly, but the current contract is for TASO to provide umpires for all public school games under the UIL.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by GROUPthink

It's amazing the stupidity on this board tonight. Let's have each coach pick an umpire and have them change gear after 3.5 innings so each coach gets *his* guy on the plate for half the game. Let's flip a coin to see who calls the plate first, too.

Sheesh.

In case you didn't notice the sarcasm, you repeated me point.