[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

My state, preseason rules clinic is mandatory for schools and officials. We all receive the same presentation in the same format. When these things were done in person, coaches and officials attended the exact same clinics. If the state wants special attention on a subject, coaches and officials all receive the same information. A preseason rules clinic by the state is not the same as association training where the assigner or supervisor tells his officials his philosophy and how he wants certain things handled.

Sounds like a great system. Everybody on the same page. Wish we had the same here.

And your last sentence is why we haven't, in the past, had the exact same presentation to coaches and officials. Assigners and interpreters in the past have taught officials philosophy at this preseason new rules meeting, which we treated as any other meeting. That's changed over the past few years as we're using more "standardized" resources from both the NFHS and IAABO (Power Points, etc.), absent of any local (or individual) philosophies (secrets), for our preseason new rules meeting.