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Originally Posted by zebraman
How many years of experience would an official need before you would be comfortable? There are some great basketball scouts who never could play a lick. Similarly, you don't have to be a great official to recognize officiating talent.
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No, but you do have to at least understand the rudiments of quality officiating. I'd be willing to bet that 98% of second-year officials don't know enough about positioning, mechanics, or judgment to give an informed rating of an official in a high-level varsity game. So either pick an arbitrary number, like 5 years of experience, or say that Varsity officials are only rated by other Varsity officials.
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What would be a problem is to label those officials as "JV officials" and only let them be rated by the "varsity officials."
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I'm not suggesting that at all. JV officials could be rated by any official who works JV or higher. It just seems to me that a 2nd year official isn't qualified to rate a Varsity official. JMO.