Ejection Policies and Are They Upheld?

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

I remember seeing the stats in Nebraska at the football rules meeting last summer, that the sport with the highest number of ejections was soccer! Even baseball paled in comparison. Must have some Bobby Cox wannabes working in Oregon!

No, it is just a difference in how a player being removed from a game is handled. In soccer it is not uncommon for a player to receive a yellow card for "persistent infringement" of the rules. An example: kid fouls the same opponent 3 times during the 1st half on the 3rd foul he is issued his 1st yellow card. In the second half he fouls other players 2 more times and is issued a 2nd yellow card which means he is now out for the remainder of the game. That scenario is reported as an ejection. So in Basketball the kid would have had 5 fouls be on the bench and no report to the state. In soccer the 2nd yellow card is a "soft" red card but a red card none the less and is reported as an ejection. Soccer has no more or no less hot heads as players or coaches but the above described discrepancy puts soccer in a poor light.