[MrB]

Rich,

What ever your reasoning is, I don't get it. If an Association and its schools agree to a game fee, and the association pays that fee to its officials then everyone is happy.

As for your argument, I bet most of the guys working 1 man would rather be working 2 man varsity games, but that isn't yet an option for many of them.

As far as recruitment and retension of new officials it seems that the original posters association will do better in this area than one that compensated officials like you are speaking of.

I bet you are probably against LL paying its umpires too. I know many very good officials, even pro guys that started out in LL for pay $20 a game is pretty good to a high school kid that wouldn't probably come out and get into umpiring otherwise.