Thread: Go Dressed???
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Old Mon Jan 10, 2005, 06:31pm
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Originally posted by JRutledge
If you do that here, you will not be working very long. Take my word on this. This is not just my opinion. Every assignor (at the HS level) has a policy written and unwritten that this is unacceptable.
Well you and I both know who my main assignor is, and in 100% of the games I've worked this season, my partner has shown up dressed. In 100% of the games I have worked this season, I have changed at the gym. If I was a varsity guy, there'd be no question. I make it a point to do it even if others don't (in basketball and in football) because I try to be a cut above what which some some others may feel is enough to get by (this is a whole 'nother conversation, though - the professionalism with which people approach this, regardless of level).

It's not judging them - you can't judge others or talk about others or control what anyone else in the avocation does. All you can control is your own preparation and your own professionalism and if you do that, the rest takes care of itself.
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