[Mike Simonds]

In Hawaii where I work, we assign the varsity games by crew and work the same position all year. For JV and Pop Warner we work different positions with different guys. We receive our assignments every Tuesday at our weekly meetings. We have a senior official in the timer's booth to take notes and critique us at the following meeting.

For state play-off consideration, we need to score 80 percent or higher on the NF tests (closed book), work at least 4 varsity games at the position we will be assigned to for the play-offs, be recommended by our peers in the association, be observed for at least 1 game by the state high school association assigner, and have at least 10 years of experience.

Whoops, I forgot about the pay... Regular season, the league puts all its gate receipts in one big kitty, and pays us at the end of the year... After paying for all other expenses, the league will divide the profits among all the member schools (public and private schools are in the same league here on Maui) to help pay for all the other sports (football and basketball are the main bread-winners).

[Edited by Mike Simonds on Jan 7th, 2003 at 01:37 PM]