Assistant Coaches

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by Chess Ref

Game management skills for me are not and will not become the ability to take as much abuse as possible and protecting these coaches from themselves.

And it shouldn't be. Game management skills includes knowing what "abuse" to completely ignore, and what needs to be addressed, and then how to address it. It's knowing where the lines should be drawn and what to do when lines are crossed. And it varies from area to area, from level to level, and even from umpire to umpire.

I think those umpires that dump early and often are at equal level to those umpires that never eject anyone. There is something to be said for "keeping the coach in the game", but not at the expense of one's integrity or the good of the game. The best game management skills lie somewhere in the middle.