Officially taking early retirement from Adult Men's Wreck League

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I disagree. Doing it visibly makes a statement that the league needs to clean up its act. Not taking new assignments next year will never be noticed.

That's fair, but I also don't know if the OPer was trying to make a change in the officiating world, or just wanting to be done. Again without knowing the full story, I would lean toward finishing out what I had committed to, and being done from there.

We're stretched pretty thin around here right now, so if I were to do this, I can see the games not getting filled, which I don't care about the problem this might create for an assigner who isn't going to back me up, but I would care about my reputation with fellow officials, who I might be hanging out to dry. Now if there were plenty of officials that could fill in? Then I think it depends on just how bad things were.

[Jay R]

It's clear that there are a wide variety of rec leagues. Generally the worst the players are, the more they think that the officiating is what is holding them back. I work one rec league. It is good quality for the most part. I encourage young officials to work that league as a way of developing their game management skills. You're dealing with players and not one coach. We have a lot of former college players who are strong, skilled and know a lot of tricks (trying to fool officials etc...). For me, it has been an excellent avenue to develop as an official. We have another rec league (35 and over) where the skill level is considerably worse. I rarely work that league since the cons seem to outweigh the pros.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by frezer11

That's fair, but I also don't know if the OPer was trying to make a change in the officiating world, or just wanting to be done. Again without knowing the full story, I would lean toward finishing out what I had committed to, and being done from there.

We're stretched pretty thin around here right now, so if I were to do this, I can see the games not getting filled, which I don't care about the problem this might create for an assigner who isn't going to back me up, but I would care about my reputation with fellow officials, who I might be hanging out to dry. Now if there were plenty of officials that could fill in? Then I think it depends on just how bad things were.

If the assigner is telling me to get a thicker skin, I'm going to assume he thinks he can get officials willing to accommodate. If he can't, he should have been more willing to show the league some backbone.