NCAA Releases Statement After Louisville Pitcher's Ejection During Indiana Game

This is why people hate umps and the NCAA.

Rules are there for a reason. If you want every pitch to be verbally argued then go ahead throw the rules out. Baseball games will last 12 hours and no One will be at the.

NCAA sucks. SEC, ACC, and Big 10 should form their own league and keep all the money.

I'm ok with booting him for "unsportsmanlike conduct" even though the call does seem horrible to me. I definitely think a 4 game suspension is ridiculously harsh.

You learn from a young age not to argue balls and strikes. Whether the call was right or wrong, sometimes you just have to control yourself for the sake of the team. Get the win and then bitch about the ump.

Defend refs/umps at all costs, just like politicians and cops.

Don't act like a punk, and it won't happen.

If the rule is there, you play with fire if you choose to step over the line. The rule doesn't allow for interpretations regarding how far you can question an umpire's calls. Also, we have no context of how this all came down: did the umpire get an earful from Louisville all game long, and he had had enough? Who knows....

Ball was inside. Ump is an idiot.

Yeah, that's bad. And I'm someone who's usually very big on players keeping their cool and respecting umps/refs. It would be one thing if the pitcher had made some sort of gesture at the ump, or used some colorful language. But just to express some frustration in a very heated and pivotal point of the game...and get ejected and tossed for four games is bonkers. The only way I could defend the ump's actions is if he had given a warning to that same player earlier in the game.

Looks like that ump needs to take a 98 mph fastball straight to the nuts with the catcher pulling the glove away and ducking at the last minute. Then the catcher should say, "man, that's HORRIBLE."

That is horrible

What’s up with the red cheeks

Hell, I couldn't even see the plate in that video. I wonder if the ump could, because that was a bad call. The dramatics, emphatic gesture by Sir Ump is overboard also.

Could you imagine if that happened at a SEC stadium in the same situation?

NCAA is such an archaic beast. Excited for the day that it ceases to exist.

The four games is brutal. Once again, the NCAA shows why they're the best in college athletics.

Well. That's awful.

so he will miss the super regional in its entirety and perhaps one or two CWS games? thats harsh for a mild gesture

That was weak. In that situation, it could have impacted the game. Emotions come out during competition and for the ump to call it in that situation is bush league.