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Originally Posted by Andy
This is the key to the "college-ready in 3 years" statement.
This is not just true in basketball, but several other sports as well. If an official shows any talent or potential, the college assignors will snap them up in a hurry. They have so many games to cover, they need the bodies. New college officials will start at the JC/NAIA/D3 level for a few years, if they show that they can handle that, they move up to D2. It is still not easy to make it to D1, but at least the D1 assignors know that they are getting an official that has had a good amount of college level work.
Personally, I have seen and worked with SoCal officials in the two sports I have been involved in that I wouldn't trust on a girls JV game. I have also seen some very good officials from SoCal. SoCal is just like anywhere else..there are good officials and bad officials....you can't just measure quality by what level of ball you work.
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And that summary I can agree with completely. You measure quality by quality, not years or the level currently being worked. Period. Jmo, but I think that it's true for most other areas too outside of Cali.
College-ready doesn't necessarily equate to officiating competency. As you said, it might just equate to being available in some instances. And it certainly doesn't mean that any official is automatically better than their high school brethren just because they're doing a few JUCO/D3 games. It depends solely on the
individual official imo. I've seen quite a few individuals that I'd rate as being outstanding officials that simply do not want to work beyond the high school level, for one reason or another.
It's an assignor's job to supply competent, qualified officials needed for the different levels. If an assignor can't do so, he won't be assigning that particular level for very long. Politics and friendship can only go so far.
Jmo.