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Ronald
The system here is a little different from most of the others that I see on the board. We have an organization of approximately 135 officials that contract with the Sections to provide officials. The section has 4 leagues and about 85 schools. Per our state contract, because the schools are subcontracting us the officials, basically paying for our services, they have the right to pick and choose who they hire. Makes sense to some point. What happens come playoff time is each school submits two lists of ten officials. One is a preferred list and one is a non preferred list. If school A is playing school B you try and give them both their number 1 preferred official providing that he or she is not on the others non-preferred list. If those two officials are already working, you go to number two and so on. It's not perfect. We still get preferred names of folks who haven't officiated in years, schools who don't submit anything, and new coaches who have only seen a handful of officials during the year. It's been a source of debate ever since I got into officiating 16 years ago. Bottom line is we tell our officials "Don't take it personally." It's the way the system works and until we can come up with another system that the coaches, AD's and assignors agree to we're stuck with it.
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