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Mike,
At first glance, my response to you would be to quickly, quietly, and politely get rid of this official. This "I just want to work the games" attitude, IMO, would foster the Derock mentality.
However, after pondering your question, I have several of my own come to mind. I was particulary interested in the fact that your crew will meet four times for two hours before the season starts. Do you and your crew belong to an association that conducts training meetings? If so are you duplicating their efforts. I would immagine that your state requires attendence to a yearly clinic (Virginia, where I live, does) in which the new rules and interpretations are presented; are you duplicating that effort?
My crew will meet once during the off season. It will be a cook out affair with the wives/significant others invited. We will meet for acouple of hours going over the information I got from the crew chiefs meeting. I also sent my crew rules quizzes that they could complete on their own time - we will discuss them also. We will discuss my expectations for the upcoming season and what I (and they) think we need to improve on. This year our meeting might run a little longer because of the significant rules changes made by the NF (PSK, etc).
If you are not duplicating the efforts of your local and state associations, if these meeting are your only means of preparing your crew for the new season; then, by all means, find a new crew member.
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Dave
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