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We started a program where the two most senior and two must junior members of a Friday night crew are told they 'must' work the Thursday/Saturday games for the same school or others based on demand (one senior one junior per Thu/Sat)) with two newer officials to train them and get them ready for...

From the assigner perspective, it has been very challenging because of numbers. We had a lot of hard conversations with the leagues we cover in the off-season and basically told him the best way to solve this is that if each of you plays one Thursday and one Saturday game we can make it work and...

I am always fascinated by coaches who try to stretch these breaks into telling the kids 25 things. I hear them sometimes and wonder if they know half of what they say isnt even heard by the kids.

Yes. It also has a 15 yard penalty. The yardage to gain on the fourth down situation is irrelevant. It would be first down with a 15 yard penalty. Sucks to be the defense.

Same here, except our school way was mega long. 745-335 if I remember correctly in HS.

He was implying if you went to school after Labor Day you would have to get out later into June. Best case is Labor to Memorial with a longer school day. Later end time also helps parents, and can make a later game start time more feasible. Dont also forget the additional heat held by turf...

Trent Dues at Butler will do season 30 this year. He won't hit the 700 win mark this season but will in the coming years (I believe he is just over 600 at this point) likely before he retires. Mark Pelfrey at Springboro is on year 34, recently inducted into the OHSBCA Hall of Fame. Just a...

Absolutely. Historically, we host local meetings and then have social events after three of them that are optional. But the conversation certainly continues after the rigorous local association meeting. Most organizations I belong to have started doing this as a way to build camaraderie to try...

We did the same and it led to a post-meeting quasi-academic brown pop discussion at another location on all of the unnecessary accessories used in sports across. It was a robust discussion that went way back historically and posited future money-making ideas which, given the nature of the...

Despite the need to actually get involved, OHSAA is not part of pay discussions for anything non post-season and even then it is really only the regional and states. For earlier rounds, there are minimums to be paid by sport however many DABs will go above that (it's often $5 per official above...

Several schools were told by Jerry Fick this fall (and the OHSAA was in the room) that 6 is what is desired but 5 will be what gets games played given that there are games being played on Thursday and Saturday nights.

Yeah this is like when people on our local facebook group post video of someone trying to break into a car and openly admit not contacting the police at all.

To be fair, the bold part is on all pitches not just the ones which touch batters.

The part about the PU being the arbiter of balls and strikes? Yes, yes it is.

Did he permit the pitched ball to hit him is the rules basis in NFHS. And that is what umpire should be saying in explanations. "He didnt try to get out of the way" or its derivatives are nowhere in the rules book. Here is a really good article from Referee magazine I've used the last 2-3...

I wish I had the confidence you did. I just dont see everyone getting on board for many reasons. And the issue I have with AAU and such and why I raised it here is because often the same parents we have issues with in OHSAA are the same ones who are problems in Non-OHSAA stuff. So their rage...

That is still a grey area to me. Some AD at another school who already has a million other things to do is not going to make this a priority until many others do.

I wonder though who enforces this for something like an away non-con game. How is some team an hour away to prevent this person from entering? That could be an exhaustive list? Or for a non-HS event? Say Joe Schmo is banned from ABC HS Basketball. What about AAU? Too many unknowns.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/bXajztfY4MkgX9ct/ Bravo. The comments though are unsurprising.

Well, to be fair he was already at the plate arguing it, as he came out and demanded an explanation as I stood there patiently with my mask under my arm and my hands behind my back. After him going off for a quick moment, it ended like this (quotes from my ejection report): ME: "(name...