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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
This may not be true in your area, but it certainly is in mine. Heck, I can no longer count the number of football games that started with 1 (or 2!) less officials than scheduled, and the last official shows up an runs right into a position between plays.
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Almost all games at the lower level are scheduled earlier even the ones on varsity nights in my area. Or on Saturday mornings, the games are held early in the morning and people might have rolled out of bed to do those games. It is usually not as bad as you stated where people are running onto the field, but they are running to get to the field before game time.
I also think the time is a challenge to do a good pre-game anyway. Because a game might start at 6:00, that means that if someone gets there at 5:30 they are not likely to have an extensive pre-game when you have 15 minutes at most. Also I think when you have a sub-varsity game you are working with usually unexperienced officials or officials that are only allowed to work those games because they are not considered talented enough to work higher levels. So the pre-game is going to be a little different for that reason alone.
Peace