Go Dressed???

[Smitty]

Originally posted by Robmoz
Last night worked a JV game where my partner was 30 minutes late, rolled in fully dressed including his game shoes which had snow in the treads. The snow melted onto the floor and first trip down the court he wiped out along with one of the players, luckily no one hurt.

His mechanics were weak to say the least and although he was a veteran official he was perceived as a rookie. It wasn't a very smooth game and the coach and the AD both commented to our assignor about the lack of professionalism.

I got an email via cc: where they told my assignor that they would have rather had me work the game alone instead of having this guy in the future. I'm proud of my own efforts to maintain a high level of professionalism and it is reflected in the quality assignments I receive.

Never underestimate the importance of "looking the part".

Are you implying that things would have gone differently had he come to the gym in his street clothes and changed at the gym? Aside from the fact that he wore his game shoes in the snow (just dumb), it sounds like this guy's problems went far deeper than where he decided to put his uniform on.