[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

I read through all of these posts and here is where i am going on this................

I assign both hs baseball and hs softball and for the last 17 years, I have officated a different sport collegiately. I have no problem if a guy gets a college assignment and wants to turn back my game. Here is why - now the JV guy gets bumped up to a V game, the freshman ump gets a jv game and
someone sitting home gets a freshman game. Now what I detest is the guy
who is asked to work a game in another district between the top two teams and I have given him a jv game. Sure I will let him off my game, but he better
not be waiting by the phone during the post season.

In College basketball, if you get a call from a D1 supervisor at 10am asking if you can work that night and you have a D3 game that evening, you would be a fool not to call your D3 assigner $1,200 > $150..........

Calling to ASK off is completely different than simply returning the game or worse, professing an injury as in the OP. ASKING off is not a problem at all, so long as the asker will accept "no" as an answer if it's too late to replace him.