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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
One of my co-workers who used to work basketball has worked volleyball for the past 5 or 6 years. Their first meeting of the year is coming up and he asked me if I was interested in working volleyball. I told him I'd have to think about it.
Pros - cons? (and by "cons", I don't mean prisoners) 
Comments from anyone who works both would be appreciated. BTW - he stopped officiating basketball because of a personal situation having to do with getting up and down the court, not because he didn't like it anymore. He's a good guy and he made it sound like fun, but it doesn't sound like an opportunity to get much exercise, which is one of the reasons I work basketball (at my age, you need all the exercise you can get).
Thanks in advance, everyone.
Oh yeah - do you get to make up your own rules?  |
Volleyball is better pay in this area, Mark, than basketball, but definitely a LOT less exercise!! We work alone at the MS and freshman levels, so you do have the exercise of climbing up and down the "stand" usually two or three times a game (with time-outs). It's kinda interesting, but the rules are much simpler, and the action isn't really fun to watch until the better JV and varsity level. And at those levels, if you're the "down" or net ref, you don't watch the ball, and that makes it incredibly tedious. The "up" or stand official gets a better view of the action, but also has to watch closely for other things and I find it to be a little dizzying at times.
I was terrible at anything above the MS level, and some freshmen. I just couldn't get the hang of back row attack, or of the lifts and double hits. At the lower levels, back row attack doesn't happen because the girls are too small (ball has to be completely above the level of the net) and the lifts and doubles are easier because they're so obvious.
Around here, there's much more control over the coaches, and they are much more restrained. Parents are just as clueless, though, but you usually have more authority because they don't watch as much v-ball on TV. THere's nothing equivalent to the NBA. On the other hand, a lot of girls play "club" ball, and the rules can be very different and that's confusing, since they really don't understand either set.
But you can get $150 or $200 dollars on a long Saturday, and it doesn't take very many of those to make a good season!