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Not About the Money
It's not about the money, but I just added that to make the question more understandable, which I guess that I didn't. I have been officiating at the High school level for 38 years and at the college level for 22 years. Obviously, we must attend and pay our way to an NCAA camp. What I was referring to was a high school camp run by a college assignor that brings in maybe 3-4 D-II and D-III observers to help improve those that go for improvement, but also the H.S. Chapter uses the camp as a way of moving people up to Varsity. The issue that I have is that last year, I decided to go and be one of the observers at the request of the camp supervisor. At the beginning of the camp, he told us (clinicians) to only correct what we saw any of the officials doing wrong. Not to spend a lot of time on trying to show the officials a better way to improve their rotations and so on. Personally, I felt the whole thing was a hoax and to make it look like they campers were getting something out of it when probably they left not knowing any more than they did when they got there.
He kept telling the clinicians not to hold up the games. "We have almost 400 games to get in these next two days, so we can't be pandering these high school guys."
I know he made a lot of money from this camp, but the campers received very little in return for their time. It is guys like this that give camps a bad name. That was my point. I just didn't stress it properly.
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