[Smitty]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Agree whole-heartedly. There are just some games I will not do. My AAU assignors know that I will not volunteer my services for any games below 12 years old. I also no longer do any youth or adult rec leagues or military intramurals. Way too easy for me to get into bad habits when working games I have no interest in doing, so I stay away from them.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I can train officials much better at high school games. There are more standards. There are procedures that must be followed. What is expected at one school is expected at another school anywhere in the state of Illinois for example. I might have 15 different standards or leagues working a middle/junior high contest.

There is a reason we do not run a single high school camp at a middle school game or contest is involved.

I will gladly pass if the goal is to train someone. I would have to be doing it for the easy money first and then training a distant 100 on the list of 100.

Thanks for adding these points - I didn't even think about the poor mechanics and varying rules these leagues tend to have. I stopped working adult rec leagues many years ago - the last straw was because my assignor happened to play in one of these leagues and he ended up winning the award for the player most often ejected from games for being a jacka$$. Oh the irony. You can't pay me enough to put up with a bunch of whiny adult never-was-but-thought-they-were's.