I just found it interesting that a fellow "brethern" would cast such disparaging remarks on a fellow group of officials...especially a group reportedly this qualified...but that is just me...an (one) opinion!!

Sweet mother of God...

Wade is a braying jackass....


but listen to him......he may actually be right

and Im smelling troll....


Mr. Troll..There is no "reportedly" to it..if you last long enough, you will know who some of these people are. Looks like you fell into your own trap about disparaging comments....

Really?

Every since I saw forest gump shake hands with JFK, I just dont take everything I see at face value. I'm like Minnesota.... er.. Missouri. :D

I do find it humerous that you AND gary think calling so cal umps so cal umps is degrading.

I guess you belive that he is out running around getting umps assigned 11 months before the event. Thats what he is doing? Flying them in from 11 states.

You know, an umpire couldnt even list this thing on their resume, it means nothing. No one is jumping to do this. Its just a tourney.

Missouri.

It isn't impossible if he lined up someone at an NCAA Coordinator level to promise him 24 umpires with those credentials. He wouldn't know who, or where they are from, but I could name several people in his area that could make that promise. Could probably do it with the Fireworks umpire roster, as a matter of fact. But WN, DC-N, or SE in SoCal could do it, in addition to JV or DN (sorry for the initials, but these people may not want their name associated with this effort; I'm only saying they are well enough placed to make that type of umpire roster happen). There are probably others that I don't know (I'm assuming that the ASA staff would be conflicted out, but add DM, RA, MB, DB, and others).

Who is "no one"? Have any idea who is working it? Probably some who have no need for a resume' or could'NT care less if the letters ASA appear on it.

Show me the roster, Missouri. Until then this statement means nothing.

Edited for those more perfect than me.

:DThats kind of what i was thinking, he lined up an assigner who made some promises. I'm dont care about the officials part of this. If I wasnt working nats I might even be willing to work it. Be a lot of good ball there! :D

Really? How much less could they care?

I edited it for Your Highness. I'm sure you got my point, however.

You show me an umpire who is not competitive with his resume I'll show you an umpire who sucks..

Competition makes for excellence.
IMO...

I must suck then. Where you've been and what you've done are not as important as why you were chosen to be there to do it. An umpire's resume' alone tells me little about his/her ability to call ball. The proof is between the lines and their resume' and their game doesn't always match up.

No, because if you didnt care, you wouldnt meet the requirements, accept it, or go.. so it wouldnt even be on your resume. No one, for example, does a national for the money.

Because you dont make any money.

You wouldnt put out the EXTRA effort required to be seen, the money to go to the extra clinics, you wouldnt try to meet the requirements to be selected to begin with. All you would do is the minimum and cash your check. You care about building your resume and what you do to meet criteria if you are one who goes.. or you wouldnt even be there - because you wouldnt qualify.

I'm not going to presume to know anything about Gary and the inner workings of his organization. I do, however, know that he has one umpire in SoCal that schedules all of the umpires for the Surf City showcases and tournaments. It is not any of the people referred to by initals earlier.

My assumption is that this person would be doing most, if not all, of the scheduling for the Premier.

I'm with Wade...if I'm not working a national at that time, I wouldn't mind working this tournament.

I agree with what you have written here ONLY if the part I underlined is true.

There are many other reasons than just not caring about his craft or looking only for money why an umpire does not pursue building a resume.

I fall into that category.

I've been blueing for 5 years . I've done 2 Nationals, including a Championship game at one of them. At the HS level I've done 2 Sectional Championship games, thats the highest in HS ball you can get in our area. my sectional this year included alot of last years 16U National Champions, lots of schloarships on the diamond that day.

So the powers to be must think I'm competent. I got offered college ball this year and I'm turning it down for 2 reasons. First reason is don't wanna do any extra traveling. The second reason is I'm not the most coach friendly blue in the world and I hear tell that you really need to be coach friendly to do college ball.

This may sound sick but I'd much rather ump 14U then 16's or 18's:eek:.When giving my assignor my schedule I request the 14's and usually get them. I do a good job and most coaches are appreciative of the job I do. The resume builders are all fighting for the 18's and the Gold. I just feel like I'm more engaged,cause more crap breaks out, in 14's then the higher levels. When I'm doing the resume building games there just not as much going on. My experience is those games are pretty routine.:)

So thats my take on the resume building.....

I have been asked to work this tournament. I have accepted.

From what I have seen of the roster, I am excited to be invloved with this gathering. Just as excited as I am to be involved with every game I am allowed to work. But, this time is is with some of the biggest names in the sport.

I will answer all questions, to the best of my abilities