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At this time, and for the previous two years, no one has been paid to work the tables at league contests. ... is our clock operator, but has been ill the previous two games. I appreciate all you and your family do for us. At this time we would like your family to continue to run the gym 2 table. I believe ... will be back to run the clock in gym 1 for varsity contests. ... will continue to run the clock for the JV contest in gym 1. At this time we have not received a complaint from the officials as to how we run our tables. I know there are times when you or your wife cannot attend so I will try to find a person to run the shot clock in gym 1.
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Just because there have been no complaints, does not mean there have been issues.
Here's my response to this e-mail
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Due to feeling highly under appreciated, we are no longer assisting with Connell High School athletics. The decision does not come lightly as like I stated below Molly & I are following the recommendations posted in the 2011-2013 NFHS Basketball Officials Manual (Appendix 4 pages 85-86). We have taken time & effort to do all we can to keep up to date on all the latest rules & regulations, yet we are continually being relegated to Gym 2. We feel that we are only truly appreciated by the Boys' Officials Association, where we have been attending meetings, & they wish more table crews would be more willing to learn like we have been these past 2 seasons.
Saturday was our last game day, starting with Thursday's game against Highland new table personnel for gym 2 & security/crowd control for both gyms will need to be found. I will also be notifying the Boys' Officials Association of our decision so they know we're no longer attending the meetings.
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As I quoted in this response & my initial e-mail, we have gone out of our way to keep up to date on the rules & regulations, yet for some reason even after working state qualifying & a JUCO Tournament we can only do JV & C-Squad games. No one else that does table there has similar qualifications (except for home district playoff games), nor are able to competently run the new scoreboard.