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Originally Posted by Old School
You and your DI assigner friend must be deranged because coaches do evaluate officials, especially at the DI level and will be the first ones to speak up if they feel an official is not capable. You don't think that coaches make recommendation huh? Well that proves to me that you are only concerned with one side of the profession. That's okay, if it works for you, but you are missing out on another side of the coin that could be beneficial to you and your career. I prefer to keep all my options open.
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Coaches might give an evaluation that does not mean the evaluations hold much water outside of simple information. For your information every D1 game very likely has an evaluator at each site anyway. Every game D1 officials have someone telling them what they are doing and reviewing the tape. And every game is likely evaluated on tape by someone. The coaches might fill out a form, but the assignor can use it how they see fit. In other words, if the coach is wrong, then just like anything they are told how well the officials did and that their complaints are not valid.
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Originally Posted by Old School
And before I leave, let me just say that you are not the only one that knows DI officials. Several years ago I had a DI clinician tell me she got picked up when the coach recommended her because of how hard she worked this meaningless game. So you see, there are many ways to get picked up. I guess it depends on the conference and how hard you're willing to work for it.
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Also if you could read you would see I did not say I knew the supervisor. I never met the supervisor before the camp I attended. This was not someone that just worked D1 but they now assigned for a D1 conference. And this person's resume is a lot bigger than you and I and everyone here combined. Also this was a Women's D1 official. What happens in Women's college basketball is a lot different than Men's college basketball. There are assignors on the Women's side that have 10 conferences under them. On the Men's side there is only one person that assigns 4 conferences and that person I can assure you are not going to be hired you based on what some coach says. If you do not attend his camp or work other D1 conferences, you can forget every getting hired. Even an evaluation of another D1 official is very unlikely you will get hired. Even on the Women's side they are not hiring based solely on a recommendation from anyone. They want to see you in a camp setting, see if you can handle the pressure and the environment then if you are good enough you might get hired to work some games. You also better have a decent resume or background to get hired as well. Cappy, I am not talking about one D1 friend, I literally know several D1 officials personally that either I have worked with during the HS and college seasons. Not that means I will ever get hired at that level. It just means when you know these guys they talk about what they deal with and how they were hired. I have never, ever, ever heard them say someone was fired because a coach gave an evaluation. Now a coach might point out something like a missed rule or certain kind of behavior by the official, but the supervisor has the final say about who works and who does not work.
Oh forget it; I know who I am talking to.
Peace