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To make a generalized statement that says a pre-game discussion within a crew of officials who work every week together is not as good as pre-game discussions with assigned officials is just not correct.
If you don't work at it, then of course that will happen. But a lousy discussion is more apt to happen between officials that are individually assigned as each has their own agenda they want to follow and each may or may not respect the "Ref" for that game.
Been at this long enought to know that both can be equally worth the time if effort by all is put into it. That means meeting at least 1 to 1.5 hours before the game.
Does the Ref for the game send each member a pre-game sheet with assigned items to discuss? At the high school level, I doubt it. How else can you have a good discussion unless you follow a plan set of football items to discuss.
That's the way we do it the NF crew I work on and that's how it is done for the ncaa dii/iii games in which we are assigned individually. We meet 3 hours before game time and each has specific items to discuss.
So yes, it can work okay but as I said you have to work at it with planned items to go over.
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