In our local assocation we have an educator, who classifies each official into one of 5 categories. 5 being the highest capable of JC/University men it progess down from there with JV being level 2. He classifies each official through
1. Personal knowledge (evaluations / working with them)
2. Recommendation from Senior Officials
3. Input from other eg.coaches, AD's, camp recommendations
Before being moved up to a new level, a formal structured evaluation will be done. Only after this will an official move up.
Furthermore, our educator supplies a ranking of officials to our allocator who assigns officials games. Our association covers about 2000 Varsity and JV games a year with about 80 officials working those. Personally this year i'll work about 80 'AAA' B+G games, 20 JV games and 18 junior college games. By the way, i'm a full time college student.
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