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Originally Posted by Skahtboi (Post 590735)

Au contraire The UIL has a system of protests that can be found on their website. Here is a short snippet:

"A participant school may protest an act or omission that is a violation of the Constitution and/or Contest Rules, but may not protest a contest judge’s, referee’s or other official’s decision."

It goes on to detail various types of protests and what steps are to be taken.

I will not attempt to belittle you with a condescending tone or French words, but I will ask that you be more specific as to where exactly this protest procedure can be found on the UIL website. Your "snippet" doesn't seem to support your assertion, in fact "but may not protest a contest judge’s, referee’s or other official’s decision" pretty much disproves it. What I did find on the website was that NFHS govern all UIL sports with the exception of football, golf, and one other. It goes on to say that any exceptions to NFHS rules can be found in each individual sports manual. There is no exception in the softball manual regarding protests. M.M. has not returned my call yet, but I did speak with the most recent past president and she was unaware of any change that would allow protests in a UIL softball game based on the playing rules. UIL violations such as ineligibility, yes, but playing rules, no.

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As a matter of fact, as an officer in the local association, I have already had to handle a protest this year!

Interesting!

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Originally Posted by topper (Post 590862)

I will not attempt to belittle you with a condescending tone or French words...

You felt my comment was an attempt to belittle you? Au contraire....sorry...to the contrary, that was the furtherest thing from my mind. If you felt belittled, don't try to pin that on me. As to the tone you read in my post, I can only imagine what that was. If you had been a member longer, you would have known that I would be one of the last people to have "a tone" with someone or to try to belittle them.

My source, was, as I have stated, the UIL website.

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Originally Posted by Skahtboi (Post 590952)

My source, was, as I have stated, the UIL website.

My apologies about the tone comment. The substance of your post is what's important.

Like I said, I found nothing on the UIL site that supports your statement. Apparently, I'm not the only one. I spoke with the TASO softball VP this morning as well as my TASO district rep, the regional trainer, and Ms. Gunst last night. All confirmed that there are no playing rules based protests in softball. Who's to say that they aren't wrong and you are right, but if that's the case, the TASO leadership needs to notified so that they can properly respond to members' questions.

BTW, I hear UIL may be trying to push TASO out. What are you hearing up North?

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Originally Posted by topper (Post 591039)

Have you not received any of the emails?? I will send them to you via PM. I think their intent is quite apparent once you read them!