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Our state association has a rule in place where each school can 'scratch' up to 10% of the local membership of the association which they've contracted with to call their games. Some schools use their entire allotment of scratches while others scratch none.
We, as officials, also have the option to scratch ourselves from schools that we don't wish to call.
The amazing thing is an official might have worked several games over a several year span for a respective coach and never had a problem in any game. Then, because of one call the respective coach disagrees with, or being given a T, etc. in crunch time of a county tournament (or other highly emotional tournament or big area/region game), the respective coach will scratch this official the following year.
What's the old saying, "It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation and 5 seconds to destroy it"??? Same in officiating as in life.
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