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Decisions for Upcoming Season
My last few seasons have been very enjoyable. I've been building a good Varsity schedule in a couple of leagues, with improving ratings, working with newer officials on JV and Freshman level games and feeling very comfortable being the "veteran" official. I have made many friends among my partners and even with some coaches and parents.
While not pushing to work a full Varsity schedule or even trying to get enough games in to qualify for tournament assignments, I did enjoy the atmosphere a Varsity game provides, and it was good knowing my hard work was being recognized. I may not be driven to work post season but I DO want to be able to work any game with confidence and ability. I was getting positive feedback from my peers, evaluators, and even from my primary assignor. So, I fully expected to have a similar or even a more heavy Varsity schedule for the upcoming season. That didn't happen. I got a big ZERO on my Varsity level assignments when initial assigning was done. Turns out the only ratings that matter now are from COACHES, and even though my ratings have been going up I now cannot get games. The assignor is using coaches ratings and some sort of weighting system for "games that are likely to affect conference standings" to set the schedule, and it is all done automatically by software. I was able to get a couple of games after the first assignments but I know the teams and these are likely to be very lopsided in score. There has been one major resignation over this policy and I think a few others who have "retired". I am considering the same. I just don't think that I will be able to enjoy the season. Among my options are to suck it up and work what I can, just drop it altogether, or something in between like not working JV games in the conference where I lost all my Varsity games. Any of you been through something similar? What would you do? Last edited by Hartsy; Mon Oct 05, 2015 at 02:44pm. Reason: revise from "suck it" to "Suck it up". didnt intend to be vulgar! |
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I have not been through this, but I have a question of you. Why would you not want to work the playoffs? I am not saying that is the actual reasoning for your current situation, but if you were not working enough to get a varsity schedule, do you think that could have hurt your standing or ratings over all? I know in our system in this state the more you work the higher your ratings can potentially be. I am wondering if that might have been the ultimate result from you not wanting to work that many games?
But for the rest of the comments, I think you have to decide why you are doing this in the first place. If you are doing it because you love it or are competitive, I would stick it out. Maybe, just maybe you want to change your goals in this to so that you can get the opportunities you wish, because I can imagine if you say that you really do not want to work playoffs to others, that might affect how you are perceived and indirectly or directly the ratings. I know if I was an assignor and had a lot of guys that wanted to work the highest level, would get the priority and guys like yourself would be thought of after if they really have no desire to work playoff in the long run. For one I have more credibility as an assignor if I give the games to the guys that are working the post season as opposed to the guys that never work that level. Everyone is trying to cover their behinds an one way is to show who is working with a certain background which can involve all kinds of things like years of experience, playoffs and ratings. Peace
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All, Or Nothing ...
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Note: Believe it or not, coaches usually do a pretty good job of selecting our best officials for the state tournament, including up, and coming, young officials.
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Another terrible assigning system. I especially dislike this because it encourages officials to appease coaches rather than call the game according to rule. Secondly, it discourages development of younger/newer officials. Coaches generally rate the old timers higher than the new officials regardless of talent or skill.
It sounds like you have options. I'd drop this league and ramp up my availability and energy in the other varsity leagues in the area. |
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In my state, an official's rating is the sole determiner of his/her varsity schedule, which is made by the SCHSL office. However, coaches have no say in what the officials' ratings are, and if they don't like a certain official, the schools can block up to eight (8) officials in Arbiter.
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The Constitution State ...
That's only statewide, for Connecticut's propensity to mostly assign two person games.
I probably won't be able to use the "belt" road sign anymore, since IAABO (International) changed their dress code to beltless, while we, here, in my little corner of Connecticut, rebelled, and still allow belted pants, by a constitutional vote at last season's year end business meeting. I doubt that the rest of the state followed suit. In fact, I seriously doubt that many Connecticut officials even realized that there was a change in IAABO's dress code last year. A fellow official discovered the change, I didn't know about it, and I try to stay on top of such changes. ![]()
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