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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Possibly violate a lot of state statues.
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Local IAABO boards here in Connecticut only very recently got into assigning AAU games. At first, our statewide leadership wanted to take over all AAU assignments, and wanted language in our IAABO bylaws that "prohibited" our members from working AAU games that were not assigned by our local IAABO commissioners.
Several local AAU organizations complained that they should be able to assign their own games, at their own fee, with whomever they wanted to assign games to, as they had done in the past.
We also had complaints from some of our members who had had "cozy" agreements with local AAU organizations in the past, and had made substantial amounts of money with such agreements. Some of these officials actually served as "assigners" for these local AAU organizations. Members didn't want these "cozy" assignments opened up to a larger group of officials.
Although I was not privy to what transpired behind closed doors inside smoke filled rooms, I kept hearing about "attorney general", "lawsuits", "injuctions", and "independent contractors" through the "grapevine". We now have a temporary, unwritten policy in place that "discourages" our members from accepting AAU assignments from someone other than our own commissioner. However, there is no written bylaw that "prohibits" us from accepting such assignments. Our leadership will look at this issue again next season.
I believe that this is the type of situation that JRutledge is referring to. Somewhere, Jimmy Hoffa is rolling over in is grave under some plastic junk in a landfill.
