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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
That's because it was a backhanded congratulations. "Nice job, but...."
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That's because this young man coming out here gloating about his success is a backhanded slap in the face to the many officials who have been doing this much much longer.
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Originally Posted by K-Bach
"I do hear a lot of officials complaining, maybe it's because there are just way more who don't get selected than there are people who do." You're serious, right? Being selective about who officiates the most important (not necessarily the most entertaining) games is a bad thing to do? Your logic escapes me, aside from the suggestion that selecting more officials would make more people happy.
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I totally agree with this, except... Why is it always the same people every year? It's like once you get to the big dance, and you do a good job (which really has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the players) you now have big dance experienced. Here's where I think the problem starts and your logic needs adjustment. Once you work the big game, you now have big game experienced and this automatically makes you more qualified to work the big game next year and the year after, and the year after that. You want to talk methodical or paraphrase Hamlet. Have you ever heard of the self-fulfilling philosophy?
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Originally Posted by K-Bach
"One more thing, their voices are all saying the same thing. That's where you're going to run into problems. If they where to all get together and file a class action lawsuit against the state HS school organizations selection process." Yes, they're all saying they got screwed and doing very little about it. A class action lawsuit may indeed lead to change, but it may also verify the selection process. This lawsuit would, however, produce a lot of testimony. All of it, I'm sure, from officials who feel they were screwed and none from officials who learned from being "snubbed" and worked hard to improve their game.
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How do you know that? The assumption here, which I don't think is right or fair, is that all the people who didn't get selected, are undeserving. I don't think that the selection process will verify as good as you think it will if you really start to dig into it.
To bring this discussion full circle for me. I'm going to give you 2 examples and hopefully this will rest my case.
#1.) The tape don't lie. I've been to the camps and I know 3-person mechanics and I'm sitting here watching the start of a playoff game and the U1 is standing in front of the table on the jump ball. His position is like it's a 2-person game. You know this guy doesn't know 3-person.
#2.) Things that I have heard from some pregame discussions. NCAA official says, has there been any changes to HS rules this year? I haven't work any HS games at all this year. Now, how does a college official who hasn't work any HS games this year, get a HS playoff assignment?
Now, you throw in a young guy in his twenties and you expect me to believe that there is no problems in the selection process! You expect me to believe that all is well and this guy earned his way in! You also want me to believe that this is not political. Maybe it doesn't rise to any global ramifications like what we are facing in our society today, but it is certainly political. If you want to argue that it's not, then maybe we need to make it political in order to get a satisfactorily resolution. I have told you that this is not that big of deal for me but you must understand that there are a lot of officials out here, over time, that has witness this type of hypocrisy. Their attitudes maybe permanently soured from all the negative things they have seen happen.
I have the solution though I doubt if anybody going to listen to me. Complete overhaul of the selection committee and term limits.
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Originally Posted by K-Bach
Oh, this is too much fun...
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Agreed...