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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
For those of you who are paying assigning fees, I can't believe that you put up with that. That cost should not be borne by the game officials, but instead by the member schools who are contracting with the assignor or organization doing the assigning. That fee should be built into that contract.
To stick the rank and file officials with that cost is bush league.
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I completely agree with you there. Which is why I am glad we do not have to do such a thing.
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
Really, it doesn't matter. The schools can pay the assignor or they can pay the officials who then pay the assignor. In the end, it comes out the same.
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It does matter big time in my opinion. For one joining any association in my area is about training, not assigning. You can be a member of any number of associations and not get a single game from anyone in theory. And we do not pay any extra fee to work games to be a member or have an assignor that is obligated to assign games to members of any specific association. We are independent contractors, so what the assignor is paid to assign has nothing to do with us. And based on what we are paid for games at it relates to other parts of the country, we are not losing that much as a result. The conferences pay our assignors and our fees seem to be consistent or more than many areas. Of course we do not get things like gas, but we certainly are not paying more money to work games.
As a matter of fact when assignors last year took on the Arbiter website for assigning, it was more money than the previous site they used. So a group of them got together and convinced Arbiter to allow them to all use the site together based on the Chicago area conferences. These assignors went to our local associations to ask to cover their costs saying that our members benefit from the usage of the assigning site which is used almost exclusively by every basketball assignor in the Chicago land area. This idea was shot down big time because it was felt that members should not pay anything to get games.
Peace