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Old Tue Dec 08, 2009, 06:12pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells View Post
LOL

FWIW, I agree. In a lot of gyms, I don't see the gym until I'm taking jurisdiction. Others, I walk through on my way to the changing room. Let me put it this way, I don't take authority until I walk to the gym from the officials' sanctuary room. I can't imagine working a HS game without such a room.

That said, if I walk onto the court 17 minutes prior to the game, that's when my jurisdiction starts. Time is irrelevant in this case. If a player dunks with 14 minutes left and we haven't entered the court yet, well, lucky him.
Unfortunately it's a fact of life for many officials. I work in a city of over half a million people and very few schools have rooms for officials. For big tournaments sometimes they set aside a room for us, other times you're on your own.
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