"Hey Ref, that's five seconds!"

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Rich

This is typical these days. And with a shortage of officials, we put people at levels they can't work earlier than they're ready for in some cases.

We exacerbated the shortage and corresponding experience gap with the push for three-person. I’ll take that trade-off every day of the week and twice on Sundays. There are copious long-term benefits to this strategy as long as we keep the press on recruiting, retention, and sportsmanship.

Sorry, got off topic again...





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[sdoebler]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

We exacerbated the shortage and corresponding experience gap with the push for three-person. I’ll take that trade-off every day of the week and twice on Sundays. There are copious long-term benefits to this strategy as long as we keep the press on recruiting, retention, and sportsmanship.

Sorry, got off topic again...

Just to piggy back on this a bit, we may have created a larger initial need for officials with three person. However, we have kept the pool of referees larger with a reduction in injuries.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by sdoebler

Just to piggy back on this a bit, we may have created a larger initial need for officials with three person. However, we have kept the pool of referees larger with a reduction in injuries.

Great point. It would be interesting if we could quantify that assumption. This would make an excellent thesis study for some sports science masters student.


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