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Originally Posted by BillyMac
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).
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We do not have the luxury to only work for one person at all times in this area. Maybe if you are a lower level assignor you can get away with that on some level, but a varsity official cannot. No assignor I know is going to give you 40 varsity games just in their conference with at most 12 to 16 schools. You are only likely got get anywhere from 3 to 5 in many situations realistically. So you have to work for someone else unless you want to work a very minimal varsity schedule. Also for playoff consideration and not always stated explicitly, the more places you work the more you could be used or sent to different locations and that means more opportunities there as well. I know the state assigns people that have experience and are known by multiple leagues so when you work the playoffs, it is not as much of a total surprise you showed up in that location.
Here is the other part of this. We have the largest consortium for Arbiter in the country called the "Chicago High School Basketball Association" or CHSBA That has several assignors and several conferences at both high school and college level being assigned through this Arbiter site. An official is not going to get hired by just anyone on the CHSBA just because they are registered on that site. I would have had to likely either go to the camp of a particular assignor or have a conversation where I show a desire to work games for them. So it takes some work or networking to get assigned by a particular person. If I never suggest I am interested in working for a particular location, it is unlikely I will even be asked to work games. I work for a person that assigns a large high school conference and an NAIA and JUCO league. He would not assign anyone to his college league or high school league if you did not go to his camps. It is just not going to happen on its own. So if he has a requirement to work his conference like who else you work for and when then I would have a decision to make. I work for college assignors that make it clear they want your Saturdays made available to them more so than any other day of the week. So anytime I get a high school game on a Saturday, I will give those games back for the most part if I am offered a college game. There are high school assignors that do not like you to give back games, but it is a chance I have to take and I do not in advance take any high school games on a Saturday to avoid this potential conflict.
At the end of the day, these are my decisions. I could say, "I will take whatever is given" and that could result in some consequences for those opportunities.
Peace