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I'm heading out for a double header, so that should keep this post short (or, shorther than the last one). Plus, ExxWhy pretty much summed up most of what I was going to add in the first two paragraphs of his post!
I personally wouldn't mind at all if the OHSAA allowed protests to be filed. To me, this is a right afforded by the rules that should be extended to all teams. If an umpire misinterprets a rule, there should be some avenue for getting it corrected. With the penalties for coaches that get ejected ($100 fine, two game suspension and taking a mandatory sportsmanship class which costs another fifty bucks to administer) I hate to see a team or coach get shafted by a bad ruling and have no other recourse than to argue it.
The reason Ohio prohibits protests is largely a matter of logistics. With the thousands of games being played throughout the state, having one central authority to review every protest would be a headache. When protests are allowed, you can bet that many of them will be unfounded and frivilous- but those still must be reviewed and that takes time and money. The ones that do get upheld require the entire rest of the game to be re-played from the point it was protested, and that could create a huge scheduling nightmare.
Perhaps they could handle the way they do in the summer...all appeals require an amount of money, maybe $100 or so, that would be refunded if the appeal was upheld, but if not then the coach loses that money, perhaps that would keep the number of frivilous appeals to a minimum.