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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
I'm not sure what you mean by this. We have minimum subvarsity requirements that all officials have to comply with or they won't get a playoff game. All officials should work as much subvarsity as possible for a lot of reasons -- coverage, helping new guys, keep idiocy like stuff from the OP happening, etc.
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We don't and many do not. Usually most officials that are working that level are there because they are either not considered experienced enough to work other levels or they have to work them to get experience.
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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
If you have the attitude of "I've arrived and I don't do SV," in my opinion, you're of no use to football or any officiating at any level. I don't work as much as I did when I first started football (or anywhere near what I did in starting basketball -- close to 100 games) but I still work my share. Around 30 football games last year.
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Whether I or others have arrived that is up for someone else to decide. But I have other things and have other responsibility and get to work when I want to, which means mostly weekend games. I also work college football, basketball and work baseball in the spring and I have cut back in the spring. I have many responsibilities in officiating outside of just the games I work. Also there are many organizations I sit on a board or I am a clinician in basketball as well. I am glad that many of you want to work that much football in a year. But officiating is a hobby and it comes with choices. And considering the time I have spent away from my house to do other things and just this weekend I worked a HS varsity game on Friday, College game (went to a college game to watch that evening with a family member) on Saturday and traveled to work a JUCO Jamboree this Sunday (several hours from my house), I think I am good doing what I do and it works for me. Just like there are people around here that have family obligations that they cannot work football at all during the season, we have choices here; sorry you do not have that kind of choice. We do not have to work what we do not want to work and do not have to work when we do not want to. That can come with consequences, but when you have done the things I have done, you do not get asked to work a lot of lower level game and that is fine with me. This season was the first season where we did not work that many lower level/prelim games (double headers) on Friday nights and that was fine with me as well. I would rather watch younger guys work those and help them get better. So what it means is I am blessed and do not have to work 30 games if I choose not to. And I do not have to put up with the crap this guy was dealing with. Then again most guys would not do that to me, because I would sell them out in a second for their behavior and the assignor would take action.
Peace