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Wow, Jason - wish I was in your chapter.
DFOA (Dallas) has plenty of seasoned guys. It's very problematical to get assigned to varsity games as a new guy. The veterans (crew members) only have to work 3 sub-V games all year, and most put in exactly that. So any given young official might have the chance to impress a veteran 2 or 3 times a year. And then you had to have impressed them enough that they remember you when one of their crew is absent.
One in-road to varsity here is that Texas has some schools that play 6-man football. These schools have Varsity games. Young guys (me) can go to a rules clinic and work varsity games early on (I've worked two - hopefully one more on Saturday) - where you're usually teamed with other varsity crew members (another chance to get noticed). It also helps that the man who schedules "normal" varsity games also schedules 6-man, so you get recognized by him as well, which might accelerate the process.
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