Quote:
Originally posted by 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.
|
I'm not against paying LL umpires. Certainly not. They should be paid EVERY time they work. In my world they would be.
The reason I am against paying more for 1-man (yet less than a school pays for 2-man) is because it allows schools to HIRE ONE UMPIRE. I would charge a school $70, PERIOD. Either I'll pay one umpire $45 or 2 umpires $35 (or something like that), but I would CHARGE the same. So the school would then hire 2.
Of course, I don't have to worry about that. I live in WI and no WIAA sanctioned game at any level can be played with less than 2 umpires.