[Mike Simonds]

Here in Hawaii the state association is a private nonprofit organization that is in charge of organizing and running all state high school championships.

As it stands currently the athletic directors of all the schools, public and private, voted to belong to the association. They monitor our football exam and send evaluators to review us. If you pass the test and the on-field review we are selected for the state play-off games.

Then we are formed in crews of 7 as individuals rather than as crews.

As for the regular season, the state association has thought about assigning all the games but I think what they are planning for is to provide a system for uniform training and testing of all officials so that we all comply with the same standards.

I think its a good thing actually because teams do travel from region to region and its nice to have standard officiating especially the philosophical viewpoints.