Associations feud
Texas baseball playoffs postponed because of feud between umpire groups | Prep Rally - Yahoo! Sports
Would you back down for the sake of the kids?:mad: |
Problem would be solved if you took associations out of the equation for assigning. When groups that have an interest in the assigning to give to their members, I am not surprised this does not happen more often. Official's Associations should not be assigning any post season anything.
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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. |
feuding officials groups, injunctions, right to work...
This is a union issue, not an officiating issue. |
Right, so some umpires should go officiate the games.
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All too typical for news articles that deal with legal issues, this article lacks clarity about what, exactly, the problem is.
"Injunctions" are typically not "filed" by litigants [Petitions for Injunction ARE], rather they are granted by a Judge after some form of hearing on a Petition or Motion. And they are not, typically, granted where what you have is, in essence, a breach of contract suit where money damages [lost umpiring fees, for example] are an available and adequate remedy. Similarly, it is not clear how the jilted TASO claims the "right" to umpire these particular games. Do they have a contract granting them the exclusive right to supply umpires for all games at a particular venue? Does their contract [presuming they have one] explicitly cover or include post-season/ "playoff" games? I don't see assigning by an Association as the source of the problem here, nor removing it as a solution. In my area, HS post-season games up to the Regional level are assigned by the association that supplies umpires to the host school(s), and State games are assigned [typically] by the State assigning a particular Assn to supply a crew for a certain game, with the Assn. chosen to be "neutral" to the teams playing, but selected from the group of those Assns who have a team they serve during the regular season in the State Tournament(s). Seems to work fairly well. |
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Here, state finals are assigned by an assigned association that is known before year starts so it is possible for a team's home association to officiate, and always a state selected neutral site. The state finals officials work 4 man crews for several games before the finals. |
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Sheesh. |
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. |
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In case you didn't notice the sarcasm, you repeated me point. |
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.
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