Received Coaches Complain

[mcrowder]

buddha - don't hijack the thread - should have started a new one.

wade - you need to have a serious talk with the UIC. If he's going to rework schedules based on a complaint from a coach, he has no business being a UIC, and I'd leave this league if I were you. Coaches cannot run umpiring. It is a horrible precedent.

Now - when he said the words "I'm protesting this game", you have obligations to fulfill. You have to ask him what rule he feels you have misinterpreted, and you have to make notes in the scorebook of the game sitch as it is at the moment of protest. Make a show of it if you have to. Make sure coach is aware of whatever protest fee your league has (and if you don't have one, you NEED one). Then, as UIC (or league pres, depending on your bylaws), I don't even talk to the coach until I have that fee. Then, after depositing that fee into the league's account, knowing this knucklehead will not get it back, I simply inform him that judgement calls are not protestable.

If coach simply wants to lodge a complaint - fine. Thanks coach for your input. No, coach, I will not change the umpiring schedule. Yes, coach, if you wish to forfeit your games due to the umpires we put on the field, you may certainly do so. Yes, coach, in our league if a team forfeits 2 games in a season, they are removed from coaching.

See what good league by-laws can do for you.