How to and how hard to push for games

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

If you have control of that too, then it makes it easy.

My role goes well beyond assigning officials. Sometimes that's good. Other times...

I haven't even made the 18-19 schedules yet. I'd love to slide my assigning back to be the summer before the season, but as others have said, I'd face limited availability of a lot of people I want to hire.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

We don't even register with our state board (and consequentially, official with our associations) until July of every year, so it's impossible to assign games prior to that, of which I am glad. With my college games rolling in from August through November, there is no way I can provide availability to my HS assignors until November.

If you mean have a license, we do not renew our licenses until May to July. It only matters when the game is played if we have a license.

Also unless you are doing D1 and flying out all, then having a Friday game in January is not much that is going to be an issue around here. And if someone like you got those kind of games, they are probably not working much high school. We have many guys around here that do not work high school anymore after they have a certain level of college schedule. Not a big deal as that is what many of them want to do anyway.

Peace

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Rich

I already have games in February 2019. If I'm alive.

I will assign 18-19 this summer.

With that in mind, I consider myself very fortunate that Rich saved a few 17-18 games for a nomad like me.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

[Rich]

I held back 6 schools, both boys and girls.

I didn't assign those, although I sent the contracts. You know who to thank.

[crosscountry55]

Ok, well, then if you're Charlie Brown, the other guy is a gentleman and a scholar.

You're both class acts in my book.

Am I kissing up? Yes. Shamelessly.

[Hartsy]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Hartsy, how does that work, being assigned to one crew? Just one crew (of two or three) all season, or are you assigned to several steady, regular crews? What happens if one member of the crew is not available for an offered assignment?

If your assigners use Arbiter, can you block partners?

One of my assignors uses the crew concept for varsity games. He asks each crew to assign a crew chief to handle all communications with him. Crew chief submits names of members. Assignor then looks at crews available dates, the coaches ratings for those crew members, and the predicted 'significance' of games open to that crew. This significance factor is based rivalries and predictions as to the impact the game could have on league schedules. The higher rated crews get the more significant games. Sometimes we get games where 1 of 3 members has a block. Crew gets to choose a replacement or leave it up to assignor. Some assignors in my area will use a crew for some of their games and mix and match the rest.