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Originally Posted by rockyroad
It all comes down to who the assignor works for.
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This is the point I was going to make. Rocky just beat me to it. Some areas have an assignor who is hired by the officials' association. For my college games (D2/D3/juco), the assignor is hired by an organization that negotiates between conferences and the officials' association. They're kind of an objective 3rd party. In those types of cases, the assignors aren't beholden to the coaches or schools that they assign for. If anything, they are more likely to take the official's side.
But some assignors are hired directly by the conference. This is how it works for my high school schedule. In that case, the assignor has to please the coaches to keep the job. If enough coaches complain to the commissioner about the assignor, s/he is out. So that assignor is under more pressure to take those phone calls from the irate coach right away, and maybe even to discipline officials over borderline incidents in order to keep the irate coach happy to hang on to the assigning job.