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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
To get a proper answer, you need to define "college" officials. Do you mean a D1 college official? Or do you mean the guys that might be working D2, D3 or JUCO ball out in the middle of nowhere because no one else is available at the times that the games are played, the money isn't really worth it for the travel/time lost, and the fact that some officials would rather work a local high school rivalry game in front of a packed house as opposed to working a D3 game 100 miles away in front of 13 people.
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Wait a minute. That might be the case where you live or your surrounding area that is not the case here. Actually many of the D3 and D2 conferences around here are very hard to get into and in a few case D1 assignors. The league I work that is NAIA the supervisor assigned a D1 conference for years until last year. And the D2 in this area was assigned is currently the assignor for a D1 conference and will be the NCAA Supervisor starting next year. And almost every other conference around here is assigned by former D1 officials that have a lot of power in HS assigning. You do not just get a phone call and go work those games. Even many of the staff members of these conferences I referenced are D1 officials. I worked a JV game at the D3 level last night and one of the officials is a current D1 official and one of the officials is a former D1 and NBA Official. It is unbelievably hard to get a shot at the D3 level let alone NAIA around here.
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