- Feb 16, 2012
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Play in a USSSA state tournament that is required to go to nationals this past weekend. One of the teams is known to do some underhanded and ethically questionable things and he didn't dissapoint this weekend. On Sunday he calls the regional director early in the day and asks if he can use a pick up player. Despite state rules that state your roster is frozen and no pick up players are allowed he ok's it...strike 1. He then proceeds to pick up a girl that had played in the same tournament but was knocked out on Saturday...strike 2. The game is protested and he has to forfeit. For his next game he calls in a 14u player for a 12u game. The pick up can only play in 14u as she is too old to play in 12u...strike 3. The UIC has been overruled by the regional director about the pick up players all along the way so his hands are tied. He finds out the girl is too old and asks to see a birth certificate - none available. She is told she can't play.
The good news is he was knocked out of the tournament the next game but in the process knocked a better team out by cheating. He was caught the previous month doing the same thing and regional director gave the protesting coach his money back to not make a big stink about it. He was bragging all weekend about a pitcher he has picked up for nationals and I doubt he has done the proper paperwork for the add/remove player process.
The good news is he was knocked out of the tournament the next game but in the process knocked a better team out by cheating. He was caught the previous month doing the same thing and regional director gave the protesting coach his money back to not make a big stink about it. He was bragging all weekend about a pitcher he has picked up for nationals and I doubt he has done the proper paperwork for the add/remove player process.