Weather Question

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by Jim D

For poor conditions such as a a severly soaked field, the trade offs involve factors like damage to the field, rescheduling busses, field availability, fan inconvenience and other items that concern the schools but don't really involve the officials. Therefore, it only makes sense to let the schools make this decision and for us to stay out of it.

For factors like this, I have no problem with field admin having control of whether a game is played at all.

Where there IS a problem is in a game already started - "Field management" is going to be (or potentially could be) swayed by what has happened in the game so far, and may lean toward "unplayable" when their team is losing. We can't let field management/admin become involved at all once the game starts - this is wholely our call, and we are told only to stop a game in conditions like this if they are HAZARDOUS, not just unplayable (unless you reach the point where by unplayable you mean completely unable to play - like balls floating away after they are spotted!)