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Well here in Houston we've broken our sub-varsity assignments down to HISD; Northwest/West/Southwest; South, South East, Lower East; Upper East, Northeast, North. So thats 4 secretarys PLUS 1 Varsity official. 700+ Officials 30,000+ Games. However theres this one area of town that they have a hard time getting sub var. officials to show up for so a guy and his son(who are in good standing with the chapter) Took that area on since they live out there and are in good rep with the schools. They've negotiated better pay for this one school district/town to secure officials for everygame. They never have a no-show or one guy on the floor. The varsity officials sitll come from the chapter secretary. I live so far in the northwest corner that this area is only about 15 min away from me. Closer than most sites within the School District I live in. The outlying area who used to get no-shows schedule two weeks before the season for the entire season. The Asst. secretary for my area schedules 2 months at a time. My games in the other area have been filled for quite some time now. When I told my scheduler I was unavialable on some high school nights he asked why and I said I was commited to another obligation and he kinna figured the rest out from there and told me to go with my conscience. He's hurting for good officials on High School nights. But I was already committed to these other dates. He said he can fill MS games whenever but really needs the better officials on HS games. If something happens where Im free - He gets first dibs by 2:00 PM. After that my other scheduler has me for emergencys. Has it henderd me getting some games? yeah probably. I dunno what I'll do next year becuase I'll be game for all levels from both assignors. I guess work one HS night with one scheduler and the other with the other. But yeah... Usually one official doesnt work for two scheduler because of the regions and legistics of it all. But in this area things are a little different because of that outlying area. I try to make it up to the chapter sec. by working tourny games AFTER other games. Like i'll work 2 tourny games in the morning with one sec.- then have 2 more that afternoon/night with the other.