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Kevin Schnall calls out Angel Campos for ejection: 'If that warranted an ejection, there would be a lot of ejections"

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Coastal Carolina HC Kevin Schnall (Ejection - Angel Campos)
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Nearly as big of a story as LSU winning the national title this afternoon was the controversial ejection of Coastal Carolina’s Kevin Schnall in the first inning of Game 2. Schnall, having since had his postgame press conference, has now explained what happened and his opinion on what happened between him and Angel Campos at home plate.

Schnall gave that perspective on his ejection following the 5-3 loss for the Chanticleers to the Tigers, being swept in the end during the final series in Omaha. He said it began with him asking for a clarification on a warning that Campos had issued them and eventually led to him being tossed.

“There’s 25,000 people there and, I vaguely hear a warning issued. As the head coach? I was an assistant for 24 years and, as an assistant, you’re almost treated like a second-grade, second-level citizen and you can’t say a word. Now, as a head coach, I think it is your right to get an explanation of why we got warned. And, I’m 48 years old. I shouldn’t get shooed by another grown man, right. So, when I come out to ask what the warning is, a grown man shooed me.”

It didn’t go much further past that warning from Campos. Schnall had one more thing to say about the reasoning for the warning, which was apparently enough to lead to his ejection.

“At that point, I can now hear him say it was a warning issued for arguing balls and strikes. And, at that point, I said because you missed three,” said Schnall. “At that point, ejected.”

There was an aspect of him, despite disagreeing, owning up to being ejected from the game which he recognized fully. However, if that was the basis for an ejection, no less in the series for the national championship, Schnall thinks there’d be a lot more coaches getting thrown out in college baseball, with him using that to call for more restraint from officials and especially in a moment like the one they were in.

“If that warrants an ejection? I’m the first one to stand here like a man and apologize,” Schnall admitted. “Two words that define our program are own it. And, what that means is you have to own everything that you do – without blame, without defending yourself, without excuses.”

“If that warranted an ejection? Man, there’d be a lot of ejections,” said Schnall. “As an umpire, I feel like it’s your job to manage the game, the national championship game, with some poise, some calmness and a little bit of tolerance.”

NCAA issues statement explaining controversial ejections of Coastal Carolina coaches in CWS final

This year’s edition of the Men’s College World Series was no exception to controversy. So much so, the NCAA was forced to issue a detailed statement explaining the latest incident in today’s final game.

The NCAA issued a three-paragraph statement addressing the controversial double-ejection of Coastal Carolina’s Kevin Schnall and Matt Schilling in the first inning of Game 2 in the best-of-three series versus LSU. You can read the full statement below:

“NCAA Playing Rule 3-6-f-Note 1 states that balls, strikes, half swings or decisions about hit-by-pitch situtations are not to be argued,” the NCAA statement read. “After a warning, any player or coach who continued to argue bals, strikes, half swings, or a hit-by-pitch situation shall be ejected from the game.”