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In North Carolina crews for playoff games are sent from a neutral Booking Agent, unless the ADs from both schools involved request and agree to an agent that serves one of the schools. This way, in most cases the crew officiating a playoff haven't seen either school and have no history with the coaches or teams.
To be concidered for playoff games you must be a class 1 official (highest classification on our 1-4 levels.)
This being said, coaches who make the playoff's on a regular basis do ask their atheltic directors to " unoffficially request" certain officials if they are available. A booking agent would probably comply with this request if there are no objections from the opponent. The quality of the local booking agent's association as a whole has more to do with the number of playoff assignments than any other factor.
Roger Greene
[Edited by Roger Greene on Apr 7th, 2002 at 12:16 PM]
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