Big Baller Forfeits

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by AremRed

I doubt they give a shit about having quality officials. They just want warm bodies who will show up and not cause problems like this.

You would be surprised. There are tournaments like these that care very much about the officiating and so much that is why they have associations with organizations or supervisors like Court Club. Officiating is often a complaint when these teams claim they pay thousands of dollars to attend tournaments and then you have some JV official calling their games from the local association. It is a much better draw to say you have college officials or D1 officials working your games and why when you see these very high profile tournaments, you see top level officials working those games. Even the EYBL Girl's stuff we did in Chicago for years was assigned to certain officials, not just a guy or gal that never worked the playoffs or college ball. That is one of the reasons I was drawn to work the tournament. And this year was the first time they had a D1 camp which even that adds credibility to the tournament as to who is working the games. Because remember this story got big when Court Club pulled out.

Peace