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Pancho

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  1. No it’s not they are trying to manufacture drama. That would suggest they are purposely missing calls. Softball and baseball umps have a recruiting problem. It doesn’t pay nearly as well as basketball and football officiating and isn’t nearly as glamorous. They also have the same politics problem as all other sports officiating. one of my bosses when I reffed d1 women’s basketball was the head of refs for the SEC. We were at a training clinic one summer where 250 people (this is just 1 of 6 clinics) were there to get hired to ref SEC women’s basketball (and sun belt, soufland, a-sun, swac, Missouri valley plus other conferences). She invited the new head of refs for softball for the SEC and that lady said “I wish this hotel ballroom would be this full for my clinic” and preceded to tell us if we didn’t get a basketball contract to consider softball reffing. That told me everything I needed to know about softball officiating.
  2. Boy she needs her own thread after yesterday’s news and then today. here’s this:
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