As a sports journalist, I talk about a lot of things, sir.

Sorry, but my name is Rick. I am not Randy Borow.

To whom are you addressing your reply? My name's not Randy; hence my asking.

It's probably best not engage in innuendos here, so I won't post the details I've heard.

Quote from: BigPoppa on October 28, 2010, 08:54:55 AM
I was a college Head Coach and I understand the fine line they walk on a daily basis. That being said, as human beings, we have a moral obligation to protect those entrusted to our care.

Secondly, I do know the story(coaches are a tight-knit group) and, out of repsect for those involved (and being a believer in the letting the courts decide), I have kept it off the board. It is a tough time for all those involved and I don't think we need to add to their stress.

I don't know if the courts will ever become involved, BP, because from what I know, nothing illegal occurred; rather, it was all alleged immoral behavior.

No one was more upset about that than Luke Johnson, who got NPU into the tournament that year for the first time in a long time, and what happens? He had to face Carthage in game 1 of a single elimination tourney. NPU was one and done as a result.

BigPoppa, you are correct. I had meant to say that in 2006 Carthage didn't have lights. I used the present tense when I intended to mean past tense. 

Wheaton's home field is Alexian Field in Schaumburg, home of the Northern League's Schaumburg Flyers, who have spring exhibition games scheduled there. In 2006, the host Carthage, which also does not have lights, refused to relinquish their host field to another site when drenching rains and cold wind were happening for 2 1/2 days straight. As a result, the tournament was reduced to a single elimination one that took 2 days.

This is a possibility if North Central doesn't want to give up its home field hosting privilege. However, the weather on Friday through Sunday is forecast to be good, so I don't think anything more than a day's delay will occur.

With the offensive explosion by NCC this year, one might say yes to your question. 

No. The field is wired, but one neighbor has held up the installation of light poles for years.

Tomorrow's Carthage @ NPU ought to be interesting. They're usually high scoring affairs there, too!

It doesn't clinch the CCIW title, just the seeding for the tournament. There is no tie-breaker for the conference title; rather, they have co-champions. However, for tournament seeding, they utilize tie-breakers.

That's correct. One umpire is chosen from Carthage's area, one from the Chicago metropolitan area, one from the Augustana area, and one from the Bloomington-Decatur area.

What a pitcher's duel that NPU @ Wheaton DH was yesterday--NOT.

Game time 3:00 p.m. Teams left the field for the day around 10:30 p.m. Wow.

Remember that I am not the one blaming the umpires. I inquired of another poster's comments about the "horrific" umpiring.

Greg,

It has always amazed me that apparently baseball coaches have this much say so on who umpires their games. Based on what you described, it seems that it would be much fairer and more impartial to have the conference utilize a staff than to have the coaches dictate who can and cannot umpire.

This also tends to be the case in high school ball from what I know and have read--coaches have way too much power in selecting their "buddies" to umpire. Also, I would think that umpires would find themselves too beholden to coaches just to get the "good" assignments.

Wouldn't this compromise the very integrity the umpires wish to protect?

Just my 2 cents.