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Originally Posted by rockyroad
Yep...just resent about 2 minutes ago.
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Got it.
And, without mentioning names, every one of the people you mentioned are great officials....among the best.
I know two of them far better than the other two but I just don't, however, think they were held back at all by anyone. Of the two I know well, their rise to the top (and they really did get to the top) may not have been meteoric, but it was not sluggish either. They may have felt frustrated along the way when they didn't pop to the top right away, but they were passing people up along the way and rising faster than their peers.
As for the other two, one I had rarely heard of. He was, by all accounts once I did hear of him, fantastic, but if I never heard of him, how would he and his abilities expect to be known. And as for him being "not good enough for a tournament slot" the assignor here didn't have a say in those choices...it was by vote of his peers and coaches. If it is a vote system and no one knows who you are, how do you expect to get votes. He eventually did but I don't think you can put that on "the network".
Regarding someone else who worked no HS girls games going to a girls HS tourney over him...that, again, has nothing to do with the network. The assignor had no say in who got there. It was, again, by vote of all the peers and coaches in combination with the a tournament selection procedure driven by the vote results as specified in the bylaws. It wasn't a choice made by anyone (outside the voters), but the way things fell together. (The system has since been changed to address that issue).
And the other one was getting great games and was highly recognized as long I as knew them.
Simply put, all 4 of the people you mentioned were/are, as I see it, all ahead of me...some started well after me and passed me up along the way. My rise through organization was slower than theirs.
Yes, there were lessor officials getting better games than them. That will always be the case. The Portland system is just a slow moving system with people have to methodically work their way up proving themselves at each rung of the ladder. Once they get to their top level, they'll be happy they can stay there more than 2 weeks before someone else comes along to displace them.