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Originally posted by Forksref
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What I meant was, the school has the ultimate authority over whom they hire. If a coach doesn't like an official the official is often "black-balled" and won't get games there again. That is the reality. Our association takes requests from schools for whom they want and don't want. We honor those requests.
In no way would I imply that the host school can influence an official during the contest. If I am doing a game, both schools have no authority except for safety issues during the game, e.g., condensation on the floor, roof leaking, fans out of control, power failures, etc. We would confer on those issues with the home game management.
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Schools do not contract directly with officials in my area -- they only contract with official's associations. In my association, schools/coaches can only "black-ball", (we call it scratch) 2 officials. If they don't like the way we call it, they can contract with another association. Two districts did this when we went to 3-person crews for all varsity games and the 2 districts did not want to pay for 3. We have been told that they are very unhappy with the quality of the other association. BTW, they do use 3-person crews from the other association, but at a cheaper fee.