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Originally Posted by Kansas Ref
Just got an email--from what I can tell it was prolly a blast email sent to hundreds of other refs---concerning a specialized ref camp.
From the advertisement it says, among other things, that "after attending this camp you will get more and better game assignments, blah blah blah". And, "our special group of clinicians are top notch refs, blah blah blah"
I was curious to know:
1) whether any one else on our forum has attended such a camp?
And
2) how can their assignments be any better than the assignor who currently is in-charge of all the district games? Or how are their clinicians better than the ones who train me? Do the jerry pollard assignors put you in Duke vs. Carolina "8th grade girls" games or something? how are they supposed to be so much of an improvement over what games I'm currently getting?
Or maybe it's all just advertising?
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He usually has a training camp in April and then a tryout/identification camp at the end of May in Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne isn't instructional. He is looking for guys to work d3 and d2 for him. I havnt gone to his camps but I have many friends who have and who work for him during the year and as clinicians at his camps. The clinicians will know refereeing. I don't think anybody can guarantee a better schedule and I certainly can't guarantee his clinicians are better than what you see already. (I have no idea what you see). His camp will never hurt you but if you are already at a certain level I can't say that it will make you better. I just don't know where you are at now.