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I'm a returnee... I just moved to Carbondale in August after a 20 year stint in the USAF. There are no assigning bodies down here although I would love to see it. I guess we are just too disjointed in the south.
I came up from the Shreveport area (Barksdale AFB) where our association was the only game in town. They assigned all games in the northwest corner of the state and it has been exclusively 3 man crews for all HS contests for about 4 years now. Shreveport is a pretty big metro area but not like Chicago land.
Here in Southern Illinois, the ADÂ’s do all the contracting. The only assigning I have seen has been at the college level. I have found three associations with pretty good membership but I have this sneaking suspicion most members are geared more for baseball and football than basketball. Don't get me wrong. There are a number of good officials here. Since they are more spread out, most don't see 50 game schedules and I think it shows. My game will suffer because I have to drop down a grade and take a number of games I would not have considered last year like fresh/soph and JV games. One has to get in front of the AD's get games down the road. Assignors? I wish!
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