Reaching out of your area

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

While that may be true for CYO, AAU, recreation, and travel games here in my little corner of Connecticut, that's not true for board assigned interscholastic games of any level. If one is working a board assigned middle school, freshman, or junior varsity game, one is being evaluated, always by one's partner, but often by a member of our evaluation committee.

The new guys have to start somewhere, and the place to do it is in middle school, freshman, and junior varsity games. One is observed and evaluated in these games, and if one does well, one moves up to the big time.

If one does poorly in these low level games, one will never see the light of day in a varsity game.

As usual, you are missing my point. They hang championships up in the rafters or on the ceiling for those games? Do they get live TV coverage for those games on a regular basis? Is there a regular streaming live video of those games on the AAU website? Do they post scores of those games in the paper or on an independent media website?

And even with the point that new guys have to start somewhere, that does not mean everyone around it cares. This is often where veterans work games for the money or those that could never advance to a certain point. Most new guys I know have no desire to work rec ball the rest of their career. They work it to get noticed so they do not have to work that stuff much anymore. And there are veterans that do not do everything in those games because no one is going around taking games away because they will not switch. I do not think that is unique to any place. The reality is that if that was not the case, we would not hear all the stories about what some official did or how they tried to circumvent the rules or procedures because it was not important to them.

Peace