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Originally Posted by ref2coach
To me this is the "heart" of the matter. In my opinion the assignors Look out for themselves 1st, the Coaches 2nd, and the referees a distant 3rd only because they are necessary to allow them to earn their money.
In my Day job I work as an "Independent" insurance agent. Since I am not employed by any one insurance company, I work to find the best coverages for the customer by what ever reputable company can provide the best coverage for the lowest total cost. I have a dual fiduciary responsibility to both the customer and the company.
I think an assignor should be seeking to get the best pay, travel reimbursement and working conditions for the referees they represent. Instead, what I most often see is the assignor working to get the most compensation for themselves by cowering to coaches and leagues and dumping any referee who any coach is unable to over run.
Result is assignor compensation keeps growing while the compensation of the people doing the work stays flat, continuing to fall behind the inflation rate of travel and other costs.
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Hey - I am not out here trying to be the bad guy, as I understand that most officials on this thread haven't been an assigner (at the hs level, assigning midget games on sat. morning doesn't count !!!!!), but here me out.
What I do is no different than any college assigner. Within my leagues, I have the following six quality schools that can beat the snot out of each other and six that suck...... I start you off with the jv of the schools that suck and then the good jv schools. After you handle that, (2 years) I will do the same with the varsity and throw you some cross over varsity games.
Games where you know the final score before the game starts.
Fred Barakat use to do the same when he had the Big South / Colonial / ACC.
Let me see how you do with Radford @ UVa in Nov. before you work NC
State@Wake Forest.
Do you think that any assigner wants phone calls ??? Inevitably none of us
(referees) are that good. We can all be replaced by someone almost just as
good. I ride one of my officials like a rented mule. He works everyday and I
hear nothing negative from coaches / AD's and he doesn't ***** if the game
is garbage.
Hey even at the hs level, I would argue that a friday hoops game can be
more difficult just becuase of a bigger crowd on a friday night.
We can go on and on......inevitably if you aren't getting the schedule
you think you deserve call the assigner and if that doesn't work, then maybe
you need to cut ties.
Some assigner's are rules guys and some are game management guys.
I personally could care less about mechanics. Do you get plays right
and do you take care of the benches and manage the game.
Burr stayed around for 1 zillion years because he was a great game manager.
Now Adams is the boss and look at Burr's post season asignments.
OK !!!! I am now winded.
Feel free to fire back