The Teaching of Umpires

[wadeintothem]

IOW, if you, as a UIC, have a local rule that says you will take the test on such and such and such date, it will be a closed book exam (or whatever) and you catch one of your umps cheating off the net.. I would agree that person is unethical.

It is not proper to judge the entire nation (or world) based on local rules that the ASA has decided to leave up to the local bodies.

It is perfectly legal in ASA for a UIC to simply give the answers to his umps, or in fact, to not test them at all.

"Ethics" of how an exam is administered is determined locally.

Mikes way of doing it in his locality is no more legal or ethical according to the ASA than another body not even testing their umps.

It used to be unethical in baseball to throw a pitch that was difficult to hit.

Are we less ethical now than then?

Rules are the rules.. your local rules are your rules - that is all they are.