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I have seen our officials do games in these conflict situations and I have not once seen the visiting team get a 'homer' effort.
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And you probably never will. That's not the problem. It's just the appearance of a conflict of interest that's a problem. Nothing has to happen for somebody to try and make it look like something happened. In your association's situation, I can see how it could be difficult to balance. Sounds like your assignor handles it as best as he can.
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1. Friend coaching a team.
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A local boys vasity coach goes to the same church that I do. We talk a lot of basketball, but i've only worked his games 3 or 4 times in the past 5 years.
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2. You have children(players or not) that go to that school.
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I usually work a couple of games each year at the HS my youngest son attends. He doesn't play basketball and I only know one kid on the team, who also goes to our church. I've probably never worked one of these games were anyone other than maybe the prinicipal or AD knew my kid went ot school there. No problems but if one ever arose, that would be my last game there. If I worked at the school, I wouldn't officiate there.
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3. You are an alumnus of a school that you serve.
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Everybody went to school somewhere. Besides that, I graduated 23 years ago.
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4. Everyone here in 'The Sticks' are related anyway. Right?
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So far, I haven't run into much of that.