[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Hey? Twenty-nine years and not a single state tournament game for me. Post season conference and league championship games? Yes. Holiday tournament games? Yes. Big rivalry regular season varsity games? A few each season. I consider myself to be a hard working, professional, "journeyman" official. I'm always trying to improve my rules knowledge, mechanics, game management skills, etc. I go to camps, clinics, and often observe our best officials in regular season, and tournament games. I'm an active member of our local board's training committee and take my role as a "mentor" to young officials very seriously.

I hope that you wouldn't mind me being your partner. You would find that I'm a partner who eats, drinks, and sleeps basketball during the season, and during the offseason as well. I would be a partner who you could trust, and I would be one of your partners who would trust you. I would always have your back, and never throw you under the bus.

Not at all. Ratings in VT are done by fellow officials and the assignors put crews on playoff games based on those ratings. My guess is that you would fare better with that type of system.