Scrimmages

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Just to get us talking about something other than amalgamations of goaltending and player control fouls…

It’s that time of year again to talk about how scrimmages annoy us and are, in some areas, indentured servitude.

Discuss…


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

[JRutledge]

I have not done a scrimmage for free in well over 10 years.

Peace

[SNIPERBBB]

I can't remember a time now that a scrimmage went overlong or had coaches yelling at officials here. Thats been the case since the time we started getting paid to do scrimmages.

Scrimmages used to be looked at around here,in the freebie days, as a way to suck up to ADs to get games. Didnt really work for most guys with that attitude. Now its seen as a way to suck up to assigners . See statement about ADs. Better reason to do scrimmages now is you can, depending on your local association, usually get local meeting credit if you did a scrimmage that occurred on a meeting night, which is a win-win really. Credit, get paid, and avoid the sometimes inane rules arguments or rambling speeches by guys waxing poetic about some inane thing they learned at a camp.

[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.

[SNIPERBBB]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

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.

One could rewrite it that way of one didn't want to make sure the reader got the point. The redundancy is on purpose.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

The redundancy is on purpose.

Might be a poster from any of the little Connecticut corners, not just my little corner. Might be a poster that only posts inane rules arguments, or it might be a poster that only posts rambling speeches. It might not be me.

[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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