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Old Wed Jul 26, 2006, 07:03pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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As stated before there is no such thing as "registration" to work college sports of any kind that I am aware of. What you need to do is look at the college conferences that are around you. See how far you are willing to travel, which might be across a couple of states for a single conference. Contact the conference assignment chairperson and ask them directly what you need to do. In most cases you will have to attend a camp they will be at or a camp they might run.

Also understand that getting hired in college basketball is a very subjective thing. Usually you are not going to get hired in a Division 2 without having some JUCO and Division 3 experience. Also you might not be near a Division 2 conference, but you might be surrounded by a few JUCO conferences and traveling 4 hours might be a reality to work a single game.

Here is also the dirty little secret of basketball officiating. You will not likely work both Men's and Women's college. You will have to choose and commit yourself to one or the other. The mechanics are different, many of the rules are different and the officiating philosophies are very different. So if you are not yet working college basketball you might be able to go to both a Men's and Women's camp, just understand that it will be an adjustment to go back and forth.

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