Game speed

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by blindzebra
Yet your immediate response was don't work those games, real helpful.

I run a "New Official's Class" for one of my local official's Association. One of the instructors last year said the very same thing. He said that "If you want to become a good official at the HS level, concentrate on HS games." This individual runs our mentor program and does a great job doing that. Our association leadership agrees with him as do I. We encourage our members to stick as much to HS games as possible. We do not tell them not to work JH, but we tell them they are not going to gain the same experience working JH games. I did not ask if you like the opinion. This is after all why we have this forum. It is not so one opinion can be shared.

Originally posted by blindzebra
The level, whatever it is, will have changes of game speed from game to game within that level. You don't have to go from 5th graders to 8th graders or 8th grade to HS varsity for there to be a jump in game speed.

You can have a smaller classification one night and two top HS teams the next night and even though they are both HS varsity, game speed can be night and day.

Working one level won't make changes in game speed easier to handle, working a lot of games will.

Who said anything about HS varsity? You could work a HS Freshman game and learn about the speed of the game. There are some Class A schools at the varsity level that could not handle a Class AA Freshman team in a lot of cases.

Peace