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Well that's an unusual system for assigning offiicals, at least its unusual for me. Maybe we're just different from the rest of the country. In Utah, an official's ranking is based on part I and part II test results, meeting attendance, and evaluations that should take place each game. Officials are either in the top twelve of their position (100), top twenty-four of their position (200), top thirty-six of their position (300), or part of the rest (399). There are no set crews, varsity officials are shuffled each week. Usually the higher profile games will have 100 level officials assigned to them. Rankings play a big part when the playoffs come around. Last season, our board impemented a program where 100 and 200 officials will fill out a crew evaluation sheet for at least six of their games, this is so that officials should be evaluated almost each week. Its a good system in my opinion. I have to admit, though, I think it would be cool to be considered for a draft. The only problem I can think of is what if you didn't like your crew? Are you stuck with them for life?
Our association always emphasizes sideline control. We use the sideline warning to our advantage. If a sideline is acting up, coach included, we'll give a sideline warning which costs them nothing, just lets them know we are serious. We give additional sideline warnings if needed. As far as flagging the coach, he'd really have to deserve it, but we do throw unsportsmanlikes from time to time. If you let it go, it could spiral out of control really quick. Since we stressed using sideline warnings, we really haven't had too much trouble. I think not calling unsportsmanlike on a coach that deserves it is just asking for problems. Combine that with having coaches rank the officials that they like and you've got a conflict of interests that is unfair. I could be wrong, but that is just what I think....
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