The Madness Begins...

[WhistlesAndStripes]

My wife's life as a referee widow begins. Just received my first batch of assignments for the season. First games will be Thursday, October 20. Junior High Boys/Girls double header. 45 minute commute. $90 plus mileage. Two-man crew, short court.

When does your season start?

[OKREF]

November 1

[Mark Padgett]

Next lifetime. BTW - sure hope there's hot moms there.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

My wife's life as a referee widow begins. Just received my first batch of assignments for the season. First games will be Thursday, October 20. Junior High Boys/Girls double header. 45 minute commute. $90 plus mileage. Two-man crew, short court.



When does your season start?

Where do you live that you get assigned to a JH game 45 minutes away....and get mileage for it???

Madness, I say. Madness!


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[JRutledge]

November 21 is the start unless I get an earlier college game.

Peace

[RefsNCoaches]

Been working our girls travel league on Sundays for 3 weeks now. First JH Boys game is 11/29.

[jeremy341a]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Where do you live that you get assigned to a JH game 45 minutes away....and get mileage for it???

Madness, I say. Madness!


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I live in Central MO. I have JH games that are farther than that. $90 per two games and 50 cents per mile.

[BlueDevilRef]

Originally Posted by jeremy341a

I live in Central MO. I have JH games that are farther than that. $90 per two games and 50 cents per mile.

From tone of some posts after this, maybe we got it ok in MO. Swmo here, we do $40 for 6 min quarters, $50 for 7, $60 for 8, plus mileage. So generally JH DH's are around $100.

My first one of those was around first week of sept and depending on the conference, some schools will still be doing JH into late Feb. JV/V starts around a month from now.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef

From tone of some posts after this, maybe we got it ok in MO. Swmo here, we do $40 for 6 min quarters, $50 for 7, $60 for 8, plus mileage. So generally JH DH's are around $100.

My first one of those was around first week of sept and depending on the conference, some schools will still be doing JH into late Feb. JV/V starts around a month from now.

You have it really good. The going rate for MS games around here is $25-$35, some with mileage, some without.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

You have it really good. The going rate for MS games around here is $25-$35, some with mileage, some without.

Camron - when I did MS games for TBA (Tigard Basketball Assn.) we paid $27.00 per game - no mileage. The games were "short" and on small courts. The only bad part of this was when you had games at Fowler MS (three courts) because the gym floor is tile, not wood. It's not really great for your knees. On Saturdays, games started at 9:00 and were scheduled to start every hour and ten minutes later (six minute quarters, five minute halftime). The last game of the day started at 4:00 so we were finished a little after 5:00. That made for a schedule of 7 games. As I alluded to in an earlier post, I would work six of those games taking off the one at 12:30 for lunch. I had to be back on the court at 1:40. Not a problem since it took me about five minutes to get home.

[Amesman]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Where do you live that you get assigned to a JH game 45 minutes away....and get mileage for it???

Madness, I say. Madness!

THIS.

(And the fact it's $45 each for middle school games —and more for a DH, in fact, than for a freshmen DH here!)

Inquiring minds would like to know! Might be ready for a move too

[Mark Padgett]

I used to work MS rec games at an MS about 6 blocks from my house. Since I was also the scheduler for that rec organization, I would schedule myself for a full day of games on Saturdays during the season. I didn't get any mileage but I did get to go home for lunch between games.

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Where do you live that you get assigned to a JH game 45 minutes away....and get mileage for it???

Madness, I say. Madness!


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Originally Posted by Amesman

THIS.

(And the fact it's $45 each for middle school games —and more for a DH, in fact, than for a freshmen DH here!)

Inquiring minds would like to know! Might be ready for a move too

Just another one of the beauties of living in ALASKA. Heck, I even work a tournament or two each season where I get on a plane, fly to a remote part of the state, work up to 3 games a day for 3-4 days, and they cover all my travel expenses as well.

Not a bad gig if you can get it!

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

Just another one of the beauties of living in ALASKA. Heck, I even work a tournament or two each season where I get on a plane, fly to a remote part of the state, work up to 3 games a day for 3-4 days, and they cover all my travel expenses as well.



Not a bad gig if you can get it!

Ok, now that's fair given the situation you described. I take back my incredulous post. In fact, that sounds like a lot of fun!

I've learned a lot about the economics of sub-collegiate officiating in the past few years, including the fact that supply and demand of officials is a HUGE deal.


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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

.. I get on a plane, fly to a remote part of the state ...