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Originally posted by JRutledge
First of all I have a right to any opinion that I state. You do not have to agree with that opinion. We all do not come from the same experiences in our officiating life. I do not expect a new official to completely grasp much of anything, but I would expect them to start working on the concept of advantage/disadvantage early in their career. Those officials might be put into situation where they have to perform and if they do not step up they will not get many more shots.
Everyone can get into this lowering of expectations of younger officials, but in some conferences where I live younger officials only have a few years to prove they can work. If they cannot prove they can work, they will not get a shot. We do not have the massive shortage of officials in this area. I have heard multiple assignors say here they have 3000 officials to cover a single game; they do not need guys that cannot work. Officiating is the one thing where people expect us to be perfect the first time we work. No one cares if you are newer or not. If you cannot perform, they will find someone else. When we run camps we teach 3 Person in most of those camps and we expect people to grasp those concepts early. When they do not understand certain concepts (advantage/disadvantage as an example) they will not advance. In some cases they might be dropped from working HS games at all.
Peace
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Gee, my opinion and where I live, never saw that coming.
The vast majority of the country is dealing with a shortage of officials, I know where you live is completely isolated from the experiences of the rest of us, but...
In any case teaching advanced concepts to beginning officials is still ridiculous.
There is a reason first year medical students are not performing surgery.
New officials need to have the mechanics and the basic rules ingrained. When they are not worrying about the basics, they can absorb the more advanced.