OK please help me out!
The assigning officers for the softball umpires are all men. Most of them are over 65 years old. We should be getting more women involved in our sport. I have seen in the past, that these officers are treating people like they did 30 years ago. There is one assigning officer who assigns baseball and softball. One of his umpires asked him to call either baseball or softball, during the week, but not back and forth. This aging assigning officer was NOT going to be told what to do. He showed the umpire who was in charge. So therefore, the rest of the year, he had a baseball game and then softball. So, the umpire quit! He was an excellent umpire, a very good man, but he wasn't going to be treated unfairly.
The T$$AA lets these older gentlemen continue to be in charge.....again why not change the culture and get more women involved. As a husband and father, I don't want my wife or daughter working for these men. Time has past them by, but the T$$AA continues the same course. Guess what you get when you don't change course......the same results.
So do you really think that more people will want to umpire if you raise the rate or until you solve the problems?