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Originally Posted by JRutledge
You can put it any way you like. I do not have to dig in my pocket and pay anyone to work a single game in any conference. Actually I am paid more money in the conferences that have assignors than the schools where the AD is the person that assigns the games. The fees with the conferences and the assignor are between the conference and the assignor. The officials do not play a direct part in that in any way. There is no association that is apart of the process and if someone wants to hire me, that is between me and the assignor. The assignors in my area can hire whomever they want to regardless of association or specific area. So I do not see this as I am paying anyone anything. And if I was, that would be a tax issue. I cannot claim any money that comes out of my check that goes to an assignor because I do not see it. 
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You may not dig into your pocket to pay them but the school just puts a little less in your pocket so that they can pay the assignor. Whoever does the assignments is going to get a piece of the pie (noone does it for free, not even the AD's). The fact that you might get paid more for conferences where assignors are utilized only says that those particular schools/conferences are willing to pay more to have someone else find the officials. The ones where the AD's handle it want to save a little money (or want more direct control) and pay you a little more and bypass having an assignor (and having to pay an assignor).