Not Enough Games

[JRutledge]

That is just crazy to me. We have assignors in this part of the state, but they only have one or two conferences. An assignor might only have 10 schools to assign. And that assignor is not associated in most cases with a particular official's association. At least on the varsity level, at best I might be lucky if I get 3 assignments from that assignor. So it is almost by necessity that you work for more assignors and work a large area. We have an availibility sheet that we send to different assignors and they work off of that. Or one day you might get called (around this time of year) and be asked to go over next year's schedule. Around here, the more guys you work for, the better it helps getting assignments in other conferences.

When I was trying to work for certain assignors, the first question that is asked, "who do you work for." And when you start rattling off names, that helps you and they tend to like the fact that others think you are good enough to work varsity for them. But for the most part, I am staying in the area for lower level games. Just because they are played earlier in the day or evening and you do not have to fight traffic to get there. And that is very common among officials in my area to work for a lot of guys.

So if I piss off 1 assignor, that might only cost me 3 games. And I probably can pick those up with the other guys, depending on what I did with the 1 assignor that I made upset. If I double book or not show up, that can hurt me overall and word will spread around. And in some cases, different assignors do not even like each other. So if you piss of the right one, the others will not care that much.

Peace