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Originally posted by JRutledge
An 8th grade championship game?
I have worked an 8th grade regional game before and I have worked my share of very insignificant varsity games. There is much more pressure at the varsity game with 100 people in the stands. Intensity is one thing. It is another when more eyes are at play at a sorry *** varsity game. I can get rated at the most sad varsity contests; I cannot get rated at a JH game of any kind. These two things are not even comparable.
Peace
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I'm surprised it took you so long to criticize the comment. I fully expected it to come from you first.
I glad for you that you are now only rated on varsity games. However, I was waiting for a JH rec game to start this last weekend (I was working it with my son, a new official) and there was a league official there watching a kid, in his first year, officiate a 6th grade game (my guess is the official was 19-20). The guy needs to find officials that are good enough to call 8th grade so he can more those officials to cover his HS ages. But you probably don't consider that a meaningful evaluation because is wasn't at a varsity game.
You normally have good information in your post and appear to be one of the officials many could learn from. However, at least for me, your arrogance gets in the way at times.