[chseagle]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Eagle though I personally give you a hard time here, I admire how seriously you take your responsibilities. As Juggles put it, I wish I had a professional table crew at all of my games. Sorry that this is happening to you, I hope this is only a brief hiatus for you all.

Here's a copy of the e-mails between the AD & I:

I am curious as to why in Gym 1, we are being relegated to shot clock operations only? We have been following through what is being asked of Table Officials in Appendix 4 of the 2011-2013 NFHS Basketball Officials Manual under the headings 4.0.2 Selection of the Scorer & Timer & 4.0.3 Training the Table Officials (pages 85-86).

We have been attending the Boys' Officials Association meetings in Tri-Cities & they are very appreciative that we are taking the time to attend to have a better knowledge of the rules & the response is that they wish they had more table crews like us working the Varsity games.

I am not trying to cause waves of dissent, however we have previous experience with Varsity Contests doing the 3A/4A Regionals & the NWAACC Basketball Championships at Toyota Center so we have experience in using of the Daktronics AllSport 5000 Scoreboard Controller, as well as the one game we did last year at CHS due to ... being sick. We have noticed that ... lacks the ability to remain impartial & she cheers for CHS while at the table. ... also has been slow at times in stopping the clock & posting information on the scoreboard, which can impede the flow of the game. ... is also not following Intermission timing rules by buzzing 45 seconds & a minute to resume play between quarters, or not being present at the table to buzz the minute warning horn pre-game & at halftime.

As evidenced by the materials on the clipboard I carry, I take table crew operations seriously. Some of what we have been witnessing is due to lack of rules knowledge, & we would like the opportunity to show our capabilities during a Varsity contest.

We are willing to do Varsity Timer/Scoreboard as volunteers, as we know in the past that the Varsity Timer has been getting paid. We are wanting to do all we can to save NFSD & CHS money.

AD Response to follow