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Originally Posted by Rooster
1. Why is experience in quotes?
*To distinguish context-specific experience from generalized experience.
2. Help me understand here: You think working practices and games of their relevant competition level will give an official enough "experience" to work college games if they know the rules, how to get in the right spot, etc?
* By working an active combination of jamborees, scrimmages, practices, and games at your desired level of officiating vocation, you will eventually and assuredly acquire the acumen to become a satisfactory ref at that chosen level.
3. Ballpark...How many practices and games do you think would be needed to learn those "tangential issues" so that he or she could couple them with the key aspects you identified and be in a good position to get picked up?
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*At best I can offer here is 2 to 5 years. There is a book called "The Tipping Point" that indicates that the average human needs 3500 to 5000 hours of practice, experience, feedback/evaluation on a task to transition from complete novice to satisfactory performer. So, I think that is a good baseline to begin with.
Are we good here?