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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
Best? Way too subjective, IMO.
States should have a pool of people who they would feel confident in sending to the state tournament and spread the wealth. When I'm king nobody would work more than one girls and one boys state final in a lifetime unless there was nobody else qualified to work the game.
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The "best" might be a subjective label. But we all know of people that consistently do the job year in and year out. There are also officials that cannot do the job at all. That might be subjective, but that is just the truth. And to say that someone should only work one state final is also IMO not very practical. Then you are going to have a bunch of people that either are not ready, or never were truly qualified in the first place to work games. I have no problem with a limit on how many state finals someone works (we have one here for the most part). I just think one is too restrictive. I am just saying that you should not throw away those that have proven themselves over an extended period of time. And you should not move guys that can barely handle a big time regular season game, let alone a playoff game that will affect seniors and memories for life. I am not saying officials should work forever, but you should not put officials with very little experience on games of that magnitude.
Peace
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Who said you would put officials with no experience in games of that magnitude? You'd still have to "work your way up the ladder" before going to state. You'd still have to work regionals, sectionals, substates, and all those preliminary rounds that states have.
I think I counted 622 officials in my state that were "playoff eligible." 48 officials here work the state tournament every season. No reason that you couldn't pick out a different batch of 48 every season.
But the problem is this -- it takes manpower and effort to identify those people who would do well in the state tournament and it's much easier to just send somebody again, and again, and again. And people like the OP may be good enough to work, but don't.
I'm not complaining personally -- I've never lived in a state long enough to work my way into such a position and I'm thrilled with my playoff schedule.