Mick,
What's your record for consecutive questions asked?
Anyway, it's a Summer league made up of mostly College
players. We do get some Pros however. Andre Miller, Mike Doleac, Keith Vanhorn. Mostly guys with local ties.
Gary Zielinski, who is now in the NBA, started it in our area about 8 years ago.
We play by NBA rules, and have a very small pool of officials to chose from.
In Utah, there have been repercussions in the past for High School guys working our league. Many have been told "stay away from that Pro-Am." I don't know why you wouldn't want your officials reffing the best ball in the city during the Summer. I quess improvement isn't high on their list of priorities. So we have a core croup of guys who have either worked Pro ball or been to Pro-style camps, (C2C, Hue Hollins etc,)
We are always looking for new officials, but I don't know that the 20$ game fee would make it worth a trip from the U.P.
We use three-man mechanics, and the Gym we play in is only an 84' floor, so unless you do 4 games a night, it's not too taxing. But still a great way to stay in shape in the Summer.
We had another league start up to try and compete the last couple of years, but it was more of a run and gun league,
and the guys were not very dependable.
The guy running the league didn't want to forfeit games, so we would start 1/2 hour to 45 minutes late sometimes. Other times he would let teams "borrow" guys that were just hanging around to fill out a team for the night. It folded after about 6 games last year.
Anyway, thats the lowdown.