Incompetent Partner

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by bluezebra


What in the world are you talking about? I never mentioned police reports, blood tests, oaths of allegiance, or anything else. Just to be qualified to officiate. Here in California (I'm in Southern California) we are required to join our local high school officials' association, attend a clinic, meetings, take and pass with at least 80%, a qualifying exam. We are not permitted to officiate a high school game if we're not qualified by our local unit. Schools send their schedules to a liaison person who forwards them to local unit assignors who then assign games.

Bob

Well to figure out that this individual was "qualified" or not, you would have had to do all those things. As I said, this might have been this guys first time in this behavior. Unless he had other incidents that people would have known about before hand, as long as the state or the officials association knew about, then he was qualified.

I live in Illinois, and the only requirement to do games is to pass the requirements of the state. All you have to do is get 80% on the Part 1 exam every year. You have to pass the background information that the state wants you to to have a license. And every 3 years you have to go to a officials clinic. It is not required to be a member of any officials association or organization of any kind. If a school or assignor wants to use you, they can. Now to do the playoffs you need to do some other things, but to do a simple IHSA game, if the state licenses you, that is all you need. The rest is up to the people that assign the games. And even with an association in my state or any other, I really do not think they are going to hold you back if you want to do games. You might not get the best game, but you will get games. We already have enough problems getting officials and retaining them all over the country, I am sure that officials associations, if they want to keep people are going to weed out all the bad apples until they have been in their association for a little while. And even the associations that I have run into that have membership restrictions or applications to become a full member, they do not hold you back from working. They usually take some time to evaluate you before you become a full member. But again, you still work.


This individual was more than likely "qualified." But that does not mean very much if you think about it.