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Originally Posted by Rich
We agree completely on this. I assign for 22 schools and each school has their stable of officials who have (1) been doing this for years and (2) have no desire to work varsity games. Close to home, early start time.
People think I'm joking when I say I think they should raise the varsity rates and leave the JV rates alone, but I'm completely serious.
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I think a gap is a good idea too, but the size of that gap above is more than I think is reasonable.
There are a lot of people that will never be Varsity capable officials. Our toughest set of games to cover is the Freshman/JV set due to the number of them and the time of day (most are at 5:45 with some at 4:00). We need numbers of officials just to get those covered. Lower pay just doesn't do it and it makes the assignors job very difficult.
As a Varsity official, I wouldn't really be interested in helping cover the lower level games if the pay that poorly. I don't do it for the money, but I also don't do it for peanuts.