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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Officials already make those decisions and I am sure they make those decisions within your area as well as other areas.
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Your post describes the benefit of something that I naively asked a few weeks ago, why work for more than one assigner.
We don't have that benefit here in my little corner or Connecticut. If one wants to work high school games there is only one assigner, and you work under his, and the board's, rules (one in the same).
The last "independent", non-IAABO board in Connecticut merged (actually a hostile takeover) with my local IAABO board about fifteen years ago. Connecticut high schools are now 100% covered by IAABO, with it's rules, and local territorial boundaries.
Up until this new choice (boys, girls, both) our blocks were quite limited. You could block out days, and times, of course. You could also block out schools, or teams of that school, for "conflict of interest" reasons (when I taught in our local school system, and coached middle school basketball, I blocked out the local high school). Up until this recent "gender choice" change there were no other blocks "officially" available to us. Certainly not for distance, school size, quality of play, etc.
If an official is having a particular problem with a certain coach, or a certain partner, one could discuss this with the assigner and work it out "unofficially".
Other than what I mentioned above, we really don't have any other choices.
That's why I was puzzled at this recent (gender choice) change. Up until now (with very few exceptions), we pretty much worked the games that the assigner wanted us to work, no questions asked.
