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Georgia
We give a card to the coaches that lists the officials and position for that game. It asks for comments and can be returned to our assignor (Ex. Sec. of the association). About the only time these cards are returned is when a coach is upset and wants to "black ball" a certain official or the whole crew. Coaches tend to hold associations hostage in this state with "black balls" or the threat to change associations. The state association claims to not allow this, but it is still widely prevalent. Until the state takes away individual associations from contracting with each school and does the assigning from the state level this will be a problem. The state conducts at least one evaluation of each crew each year which is done by a state trained evaluator (usually a retired official).
The selection to playoff games is pretty much up to the home team, but will usually be a third party association. If neither school can agree on the officials, the state assigns them. When it gets to the semi-finals and finals all crews are selected by the state association and this is tightly controlled by the powers that be.
As a side note, we work as crews all year long; however, when it is play off time the crews are broken up and usually referees are used to make up the play off crews.
Starting this year a coach cannot protest a game, but he can submit an Unacceptable Officiating Report.
[Edited by SoGARef on Sep 1st, 2004 at 06:27 PM]
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