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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SC Official

That's fine, but turnbacks are a price assigners pay for sending contracts that far in advance. It's not reasonable to expect officials to have 100% accurate availability so far out.

Actually, a lot of changes have nothing to do with how far they are set out. Many changes are because the school changed the time, the date and sometimes the site that could take place a few weeks out. So your theory that having givebacks is really not accurate for where I live. Even when I lived in Central Illinois, where I started officiating, this was not a problem and those games were assigned by mostly ADs at the time and were given sometimes two seasons in advance. Schools knew certain games would be played and wanted to lock in their "better" officials.

And I cannot speak for what happens in South Carolina, but we have weather here that can change everything the morning of a game. We can have snow in the morning that can move a game time or move it to another date in a matter of hours. That is a much bigger issue than having a game given a season in advance.

Again, not the issue here. I see why someone from another state might see this as an issue, but if you lived here you would get over it very quickly. You would have to or not officiate. We have plenty of basketball officials in our state and area, not struggling with this situation at all to my understanding.

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