[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I would hope that everybody would go back and read my post of Aug. 18th. IAABO has nothing to do where you live. It is a technical organiztion dedicated to the education and training of basketball officials. To use the excuse that IAABO does not have a presence where I live is just that an excuse, not a reason.

I do not live in Los Angeles anymore but I still belong to the Structural Enigneers Association of Southern California.
The SEAOSC is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of California. SEAOC is the largest technical organization of its type. There is no such organization in my neck of the woods, but as a structural engineer I benefit greatly from the research that it does and the technical articles that it publishes. Are the professional and technical enigneering organizations perfect? No. Do I agree with everything that they do or the stances that they take? No. But that is no reason for me not to belong to these organizations.

IAABO is not a perfect organization, nor are some of the local officials associations that I belong to in the four sports that I officiate. But as I have said in the past, you do not have to have an IAABO Board in your area to belong to it. Check out its website and join for a year; try it you might like it. If you do not want to spend the money because there is no local membership then maybe you are in the wrong avocation; I know that we all fill out Schedule C's but the amount of money that we make is not the primary reason that we officiate. IAABO is a national and international organization and it strives to serve all basketball officials.