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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by me, Chuck Elias
My guess is that the state meeting will be poorly attended.
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My guess is your local board needs some schedule updating.
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Maybe, mick. But my next guess
is that even if there were no schedule conflict, very few officials from my board would go to the state meeting. There are a couple reasons for this.
1) Only varsity officials need to go, since only varsity officials can get postseason assignments. So only 55 or so out of the 130 officials on my board would even need to go. And some of those are college guys who really don't care about being "preferred" for playoff assignments. They already know that they're preferred.
2) There's a feeling that this is simply a political move by the state association to flex some muscle for no good reason. And to mandate that playoff assignments will be made based on attendance at the meeting makes a lot of officials angry. We already attend 5 or 6 mandatory meetings per season. Nobody's in a big rush to go to a duplicate.
3) If we don't go, what is the state really going to do? They have to use IAABO officials from our board for playoff games in our area. So there's no real incentive to go, unless you really really want to be on the "preferred" list.
Anyway, that's just a local thing. Now it's time for your next guess
Chuck