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Originally posted by JRutledge
That is just crazy to me. We have assignors in this part of the state, but they only have one or two conferences. An assignor might only have 10 schools to assign. And that assignor is not associated in most cases with a particular official's association. At least on the varsity level, at best I might be lucky if I get 3 assignments from that assignor. So it is almost by necessity that you work for more assignors and work a large area. We have an availibility sheet that we send to different assignors and they work off of that. Or one day you might get called (around this time of year) and be asked to go over next year's schedule. Around here, the more guys you work for, the better it helps getting assignments in other conferences.
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That's crazy for me. Our local assoication elects booking agents for each sport. If we don't like someone, we get rid of him. He assigns all 5 conferences that we service. If there's a problem, I have one man to deal with.
There's one individual who assigns small private schools in our area. He's the secondary booking agent that I wrote about. I just work a few extra games for him, when I'm available.
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Originally posted by BayStateRef
I can't accept this thinking. To me, an assignment is a contract. I do not expect my assigner to replace me because "someone better" is suddenly available. And I will not back out of a game because I found "womething better" from someone else. If that costs me higher-level games in the short-run, I can live with it because I know that my integrity and reliability will be worth more in the long run.
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Just because someone has an accepted arrangement with supervisors to do this does not mean they lack integrity or relaibility. While it may not be right for you, that doesn't make it wrong.