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Originally Posted by Rich
It's a step backwards. I'd rather promote lower level officials to fill 3-person crews or have a JV person stay to work with 2 varsity officials.
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Theoretically, I completely agree. But ADs always seem to get 51% of the vote.
With the officials shortage, this may be inevitable in more and more places. If so, I hope the expectation is that there is judicious decision-making on which games get which sized crews, not necessarily based on school size and division, but more so on the standings (which admittedly can be arbitrary in early December but are certainly very important come mid-January).
Truthfully....and Rich, you know this with some of your schools....not every varsity game truly needs three officials. That should be our goal of course....but if we're stuffed into a corner by circumstance, we know which games we'd cut the third official from.
Note: All of this is easier said than done in a long-term contracting state like Wisconsin.