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It would be nice to have all table crews go through some level of training but lets be realistic.
A.The crews at many schools have worked together for several seasons and do a good solid job.There are only a handful of crews in our area who could be labeled as deficient.
B.The money ,in this time of budget-cutting, is not there to pay for area wide training for the table crew (clock/scoreboard operator,shot clock operator-if necessary, and varsity scorekeeper(s-if different for both teams)
C.That being said I choose to focus on the schools with deficient crews.
If I were the genie with a magic wand here is how I would handle this very good idea-
A.Referees are to work their games as normal with the standard pre-game talk.If there is a significant issue (such as scoreboard being wrong, clock being improperly started & stopped, scorebook being wrong...etc) a report shall be filed with the area association serving that school along with the appropriate state sanctioning body.
B.3 bad reports on a school's table crew at any level in a season will necessitate an email to that school's AD.Basically it would say "Your school's table has been found by our officials to be derelict in their duties on multiple occassions.Please remedy the situation in whichever way you see fit (changing personnel or review of the duties for the crew).
C.On the fourth bad report a school shall be required to attend a retraining course taught by the association's instructional chair (to be paid one varsity game fee plus $25.00-mileage and materials).If such an issue occurs during the playoffs visiting officials must submit a report to the host school's association along with the appropriate state association.Playoff schools with four bad reports during the regular season must attend re-training before being allowed to host postseason competition or give up their hosting rights.Schools missing the playoffs or earning their fourth report during postseason must go through training before submitting their master schedules to the assigner or lose their hosting rights for the following season.
Like I said this probably only applies to a handful of schools but it will force them to shape up and fly right or lose hosting privileges.
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