Nationals

[NCASAUmp]

I'm sorry to hear that you had such a negative experience, Bob. The UICs can really make or break a tourney for the umps. I was fortunate enough to have UICs give me an "evaluation" at the end of every game. With 45 umpires on multiple fields, it's difficult to devote a lot of time towards watching a particular set of umpires, but the effort was still made. Most crews got at least 10 minutes of "watch time" from the UIC or AUICs.

The feedback was generally sound and was definitely helpful. Even if I disagreed with something a UIC or AUIC said (which I never vocalized, btw), it still helped me to know what his/her expectations of my performance were for that tourney. The onus then falls upon me to either follow through with it or not follow through. I may not have agreed with everything that was said, but at least I knew what they wanted. I did my best to give exactly that to them. Fortunately, the majority of the corrections they wanted me to make were very, very minor, so it was easy to adjust.