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Originally Posted by Adam
I believe where Rich works, there are a lot of schools that have double headers (B/G V) and officials are contracted to work both (rural schools). Refusing to work one side means you don't work at that school (or in that conference).
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Actually, we have no doubleheaders. Commissioners typically assign both the boys and girls sides here -- we have no association or central assignor.
(If there were DHes here, it would have to be JV/V DHes and that simply doesn't happen either. We drove over an hour to our game and the home school hires FR/JV guys directly and usually find local guys who get licensed but have no desire to work anything but FR/JV games at the local schools. Last night there were freshman and JV games going on when I arrived. Both freshman officials wore Adidas wind pants and white sneakers with Byron collar shirts. One of the JV officials wore a Byron collar shirt. Amazing.)
If I get 8 games from a commissioner (4GV / 4BV), I'll just get the 4BV from that assignor. And there will be one or two that will say that I need to work both or get none -- and that's OK.
So I expect things to drop in half -- the one upside is that I'll be open and available to take games on off days -- I'm frequently asked to fill-in and people are always looking for replacements. Now I'll be available more often and will be able to choose what I work those dates.
Main thing for me is I simply don't enjoy the girls games, for various reasons. And with me working 120 baseball games a year (HS/college/LL/summer) and HS/college football, something had to give. I'll let you know if I regret this decision next season.
That said, I'm feeling about as fresh I can right now and I only had a week off between football and basketball. Talk to me in February.
