Noticed you are listed in their [our state association's] 20 year recongition listing.

Just wanted to say congrats. Now we got to get you and Mick partnered up for a game :D

[Edited by Stat-Man on Apr 10th, 2004 at 12:26 PM]

Congratulations Mark T. !
 

Stat-Man,
I've got lotsa room on my schedule, but I'd be way outa my league.
mick

20-year recognition for what? Congrats, Mark; I'm just curious what I'm congratulating you for :)

Don't worry, folks - the 90th year celebration for Jurassic will be coming out in a separate press release.


On a serious note, though, congrats to MTD!

Very nice! And thanks for the link. (Seems like Michigan is raiding Ohio State's territory for talent!! :D )

It's kinda like an attendance award, I guess, eh? You get it for showing up. :D

Congratulations, Mark.

Reciprocity.
 

I imagine Mark steps into Michigan to see some real hoops every now and then.
Michigan has a reciprocity agreement with Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin. All you have to do in any of the five states is to write to the state of interest and request affiliation and pay any necessary fees, of course.

I wonder why Indiana and Illinois are not included in that process. Both are closer to Michigan than Iowa or Minnesota.
I think Wisconsin and Illinois have a similar affiliation.
mick

Chuck and Mark and everybody else:

Thank you for the congratulations, but is really nothing. When I first became a OhioHSAA registered basketball official for the 1971-72 season at the age of 19, I never thought that in 2004 I would still be wearing a striped shirt and running up and down a basketball court.

To be honest, I knew that I was up for the MichiganHSAA certificate, but really had not given it much thought. The first two years my wife and I were married we lived in Glendale, CA. As soon as the 1980 Olympics were over we moved back to Toledo, OH, were my in-laws lived because my father-in-law had had heart surgery. Since we live only two miles from the Ohio-Michigan border, I just decided to register with the MichignHSAA for no other reason than we lived so close to Michigan.

I never planned on officiating basketball for 32 years; the years just kept adding up. Our sons are 11 and 14, and I am only (get that, only) 52, so my goal is to have my knees last until the younger one is in college so that we can officiate as a three-man crew.

Happy Easter everybody.


P.S.: One other thing: GO BUCKEYES!! BEAT michigan!!

P.S.S.: I should also add that over the last 32 years I have had the pleasure of officaiting all over the country and have made officiating friends (really I have friends) every where I have officiated and that is the most important thing that I have gotten out of officiating.

[Edited by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. on Apr 10th, 2004 at 08:26 PM]

Mark,

Where are you located in Ohio? My inlaws live in the Delta/Wauseon area just off US-20. They are approximately 10 miles from the Michigan/Ohio boarder if you are traveling north on SR-109.

Jackman Road/Laskey Road intersection, Toledo, Ohio.

Amazing...I know the general area. In-laws live straight out US-20 very close to Evergreen HS...sister-in-law lives in Ottawa Hills area...wife & 2 sisters-in-law went to Notre Dame Academy...and 2 brothers-in-law went to St. John's.

...small world!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
[B]Chuck and Mark and everybody else:

To be honest, I knew that I was up for the MichiganHSAA certificate, but really had not given it much thought.




Mark,
Congrats.. And the nice thing is that you receive a pretty nice little wooden trophy-plaque thingy.

And at the rate that officials quit, it really IS something to receive this honor.