Scrimmages

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

and avoid the sometimes inane rules arguments or rambling speeches

I didn't know you were in some little corner of CT.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

sometimes inane rules arguments or rambling speeches ... I didn't know you were in some little corner of CT.

Should read inane rules arguments AND rambling speeches.

And it's A specific little corner of Connecticut, not some, as any one of each of the four corners, more if one counts the little elbows as corners.

Of course I know of an esteemed Forum poster who always posts long rambling speeches (I knew Dr. Naismith, Blah, Blah, Blah, Yada, Yada, Yada) from a little corner of Toledo, Ohio.

Hint: His initials are Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

You got that right. As an independent contractor, I refuse to do them. I’m not working for free.

I wish I could take that stance, but they are a condition of assignability here.

That said, the assignor appeared to be walking on eggshells this year. Scrimmages are usually self-assignable for six officials, and we’re supposed to take two. Many ended up with four, and some with more than four signed up had excess officials being asked to work somewhere else where few had signed up. On top of that, a few days ago the party line was “All are welcome except no first year officials please, and you can work more than two scrimmages if you want.” By Friday it was, “We’ll take anyone, we’re desperate.”

There are still some officials uncomfortable working in the pandemic, and we’ve had a few that have decided to hang up their whistles for good. So I don’t see how this era of free scrimmage labor can endure much longer here.


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