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Originally Posted by amusedofficial
It is not up to a crew of officials, or an association of officials, to decide how a state administers its games, let alone tell individual leagues what its priorities should be.
So it is completely out of line for a crew of officials to call a school and announce that it is going to add a third person, apparently whether the school likes it or not.
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I disagree with this. Lots of small school two-whistle crews add a third for experience.
Are you seriously suggesting that a school would even consider turning away the third official?
My association did exactly what you say we shouldn't this year. Our local metro league has been using 3 whistles in JV games, and this year decided they wanted to save about $300 per school by dropping to two. At first, we asked them if they'd meet us half way, they refused. Then, we took the total fees they paid out for a night, F/JV/V games at 2, 2, and 3 whistles per game and added an extra official to the JV game. We had a couple options of how to split it up, and voted on them.
We really didn't give the schools a choice in the matter, as their costs weren't going to be affected.