[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Thanks Raymond. Great explanation regarding a topic that I was very unfamiliar with.

I naively believed that outstanding scholastic basketball officials became college basketball officials and that outstanding college basketball officials became professorial basketball officials; using their prior experience and success to move onto the next level.

Maybe that was true decades ago, but is no longer true today.

There are officials that worked their first D1 game that never worked a high school varsity game. IJS.

Peace