Scrimmage season blues

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Originally Posted by BatteryPowered

We work them for free. The schools pay a nominal fee to the association for them to provide officials but that total is given to a local charity to provide "Santa" to children in low income families.

I have absolutely no problem with that arrangement.

I wouldn't have a problem with this either, but this isn't the case in SC. Working scrimmages for free is simply a requirement to get full credit with the ratings system, and again, the state thinks it's our "duty to the schools."

We don't have the option of not working scrimmages that we are assigned to, unless we want our schedule or rating to suffer. At least in my district, scrimmages are not assigned through Arbiter, so the option of declining them is not there (and wouldn't be a good idea anyway for the sake of rating points and reputation with the assigner).

I do not have a problem working scrimmages for free, however, I expect to have the backing to take care of business. I have a problem with the state and assigner expecting us to cater to the schools.