MTR wrote:Marriard wrote:
Frankly what a load of *#@*#@*.
Really? So the NCAA rep has absolutely no idea what she is talking about?
Don't know the person so I have no idea is she knows what she is talking about but I do recognize classic passing the buck on what is seen as a hard topic. I am not sure how you can justify not dealing with this issue by claiming they need some sort of study about injuries before they make a rule change. Organizing bodies make rule changes all the time which could possibly have some physical effect on a player.
I guess you are the expert. How silly of me to provide the response from one of the people the NCAA listens to when you obviously know better.
Me? I am entitled to my opinion just as they are. I certainly feel my opinion has some reasonable thought behind it based on how the rule is called from 10U up through college. There should be a discussion as to how the rule should be changed or how it is to be called so it easier to enforce by the umpires but that doesn't seem to be on the short-term agenda. I am open to my ideas/thoughts being totally wrong and being persuaded that there is a better way of dealing with this.
Actually, it is very enforceable, you and your cohorts just don't want so hear it as it doesn't fit your agenda.
Really? Then why isn't it enforced then? I don't have an agenda - the girls on the teams I currently coach are pitching legal and are lucky enough to have good PC's who work to make sure they stay that way. Not every pitcher is so lucky to have such coaching or even a pitching coach to help them out.
This rule gets called seemingly randomly depending on the phase of the moon or some other unknown factor so how exactly do you see this being enforced today? I was at a travel tournament today and saw many pitchers who were illegal or certainly looked illegal (some of the holes in front of the pitching rubber on 2 fields were pretty impressive) and I didn't see a single pitched called illegal today. Not one. A few weeks ago they decided it was the day to call it and I saw it called in lots of games where it chased several pitchers out of the game.
And I don't have cohorts. I am just another coach/umpire/parent who recognizes a rule that is hard to call and makes the umpires job harder. I think recognition that a solution that works needs to be found is the first step in making progress in solving this issue because what is currently happening should not be an acceptable situation.