Coach,
I'd be happy to switch by the book, if you wanted it, but if the game is played with a running-clock just know that you will be wasting a lot of playing time.
To put it more plainly, the main reason that we don't switch is to give you more playing time.
Now for summer games that are played with a clock that stops on every whistle, I have some different thoughts. I believe that the officials should be paid a fair amount for their work, so I compare the games to regular-season HS games. We know that a standard HS game is 32 minutes of stop-clock time. We each know what the pay is for these games. I simply ask ahead of time what timing rules the tournament will use and what the pay will be. I think that 80-85% of the HS fee would be fair for summer stop-clock games. If the tournament isn't offering that, I simply don't make myself available. I am convincing more and more officials in my local area to do the same thing. A local assignor and I have talked about this, as he has noticed that it is becoming considerably more difficult to find officials to cover these weekend tournaments. We figure that the tournament coordinators are either going to have to raise the pay or go to a running clock, otherwise they will soon find themselves going to the local city league guys. They may not be happy with the quality of officiating they receive. But you get what you pay for.
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
The solution? Hire enough officials so that they are assigned a maximum of two, maybe three games a day, with at least three hours to recover between EACH single game.
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I would NEVER be willing to do this! No way am I going to wreck an entire Saturday by spreading out my schedule of games like this. I have things to do in life, so I want to work my games in blocks and then get out of there. Also, the back-to-back-to-back schedule generally prevents officials from having to see a team more than once. If there were a few hours off between games, you might return to have the same team again. Probably not the best situation.