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Originally Posted by SC Official
I hope I don't offend people when I say this. We have a bunch of bitter old geezers (and some not so old officials) in our state who think they should be entitled to get "quality assignments" rather than having to earn them. Our rating system is such that an official's ratings by his peers counts 25% of the total rating. As you can guess, it's not hard or uncommon for these officials to give poor peer ratings out of spite for a younger official or an official that works college basketball–and that harms those officials significantly. The "extreme" ratings (highest/lowest) are not dropped, either, so if you get one "failing" rating by a peer, it's not going anywhere.
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I can believe it. I got into officiating late (37), but after my first year I knew I wanted one day to be a college official. So I had the unique vantage point of an old geezer being treated like a young "hotshot" by some of my HS colleagues. I worked my first NCAA game at the age of 44.
So I am one to speak in defense of, and support, those young guys who have college aspirations. They keep me on my toes and I find them to be assets to my HS associations.