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Originally posted by chels
1. What do you think of a member of your board approaching youth
leagues,summer highschool leagues and offering his services as an assignor to get officials to officiate these leagues at a fee less than our board now charges. We are an IAABO board but
believe that unless they are scholastic games we cant do anything about it.
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That is clearly unethical. But I do not know of any of my associations that have a "policy" against that kind of practice. Our associations around my block are more geared toward HS ball. So what someone does with some JH or AAU game is really up to them.
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Originally posted by chels
2. This official and a few of his friends also are claiming discrimination with regards to not getting enough varsity games.
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Well, without knowing any details, I really cannot comment. Other than maybe if your association gives games as a normal practice, they might want to get out of that practice. The assignor should not be affiliated with one group. That might cause some legal conflicts that would put your association at risk. All my associations took "assigning games" out of all their constitutions for this very reasons. They want to have members of the associations, not "employees."
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Originally posted by chels
3. What appearance standards do your boards have with regards to facial and acceptable hair styles. How do you enforce them without crossing into discrimination. None of this has to do with religious issues.
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They associations have no written standard about any appearence issue. Of course there are personal standards and standards that a particular assignor might have, but out associations are there to "teach and train," not to make demands on the membership about personal issues. The main factor of being a member of an association, is to be licensed with the IHSA, that is about it (and pay your dues of course
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But I will say this, the only ones wearing any kind of facial hair at the top levels are African-American male officials. I never see any white officials at the D1 or NBA level wearing facial hair. Of course at the HS varsity level, you see guys with facial hair, but it appears to be much more common around African-Americans. Danny Crawford, NBA Official is from my area, and he has a mustache that is well trimmed. He is by far not the only one like that. I really have to think hard about who in any of my associations out of the African-American officials that do not have at least some facial hair. But I really have to think hard of the white officials that have any facial hair. So at the very least, there is some cultural differences.
Peace