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Originally posted by stripes
For everyone else, this place is totally screwed up because the coach has so much say in what occurs there. Blackballing may be a right of passage where you are Jeff, but it has never happened in my neck of the woods. I'm not upset about it, I'm amazed by it. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
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I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying to you. I never said it was necessarily a common practice. I stated that it happens. It happens even if you are unaware of it. I am sure most assignors do not even tell most officials that this even happens. In my area it seems kind of rare. Many assignors could give a damn what the coaches think. I had a coach this year that was really upset with me. I worked two games for this coach in less than a week. I was assigned each game from two different assignors. Well after the second game, the assignor weeks later saw me and wondered what was up with me and that coach. I told him the story. I even told him he had me going back later in the year. This assignor was pleased that I was going back and life moved on.
Now this particular assignor decided to tell me or have a conversation with me. I know there are other situations where no one even knows a coach had a conversation with an assignor. The assignor might not just send you back anytime soon. I am sure it happens all over the country, you just do not know when it happens. Maybe you do not see a coach for a couple of years or you do not work certain games, but do not tell me the assignors do not at all consider things coaches tell them. It may not be the main reason and many coaches might have to show some tape to back up there complaints. I just doubt that many assignors go into detail. Just like assignors might listen to other officials and certain coaches more than others.
Peace