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I have no doubt that AD's in our area know the difference between a quality and sub par official. And as Rut mentioned, we have games contracted a number of years in advance. Our 2007 season has 2 openings. The thing that I struggle the most with is the system I currently work under is not the one I was "raised" as an official in. I began many moons ago in Intramural Sports. Since I now run the IM program at Purdue, you could say that I haven't really advanced all that far. My point is that as I grew as an official, I did the game assigned to me and then went on. If I did a good job, I got other games. If not, I didn't. The system in Indiana is based totally on coaches/AD vote. There is no mandate by the state that they vote or not. Since I have been with my current crew, we get a vote each year from a school that the crew has never worked. Sorry, I got off on a rant. The thought I have is that we go do the game to the best of our ability. If the coach is unhappy, then that is life.
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