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Old Thu Feb 10, 2011, 04:24pm
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
It's to keep athletic directors from requesting, as a cost cutting measure, that only one official be assigned to the game. They figure that it's not worth the 25% savings to have only one official. If they only had to pay only one game fee to one official they might request only one official for middle school, and freshman games, maybe even some junior varsity games,.
When an official is assigned and doesn't show up it's not the AD's fault. If there's an association that assigns, it's not the AD's fault.

Easy way to fix this. State association requires a game can't start with 1 official (like my state did).
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