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Old Tue Jul 31, 2018, 05:15pm
johnny d johnny d is offline
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In Chicago we have a few ABA teams that actually have some considerable talent, including D1 players, overseas players, and a few who have even had a cup of coffee in the NBA. When a few of the better teams play each other the basketball can be quite good. However, even in those games, there can be a lot of nonsense going on. We also have a number of teams that are glorified pickup teams.

There are a number of men's D1 officials working the games here, but there are also officials that cannot work girls varsity basketball working the games too. The standard pay, and my understanding is that this is league wide, is $400 for a game. This gets divided amongst the 3 officials. Here, each official gets $133 and the crew chief gets $134. I hear other regions divide the sum differently. The rules are a hybrid of NCAA-M and ABA specific rules. The games are 4 x 12 minute quarters. You still need to get paid cash, before the game or you are instructed not to work. Never take a check. To this day, officials still get stiffed.

They would get better officials here, on a more consistent basis if they raised the pay to at least what a D3 or NAIA game pays, and if they did not cancel games on game day without paying the officials. Only good thing about the league here is they do play a lot of Sunday games too. That is when the better officials work, since most of them do not have college games that day.
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