Where Professionalism Ends.....????

[JoeT]

Originally posted by JRutledge

Well there is an individual in this area that has displayed some very unprofessional behavior and he still works games all the time. He has also been assigned different conferences over the years at the behest of those in the area. Of course you can pass the word around, but it is clear in Chicago alone that other assignment chairmen turn the other cheek if they want to.

Also if you are an AD at a school and you are inform the assignor of a problem, the assignor might not send them back to your school, but that does not mean your "incident" is going to eliminate that person from working other places in that very conference. I personally know of many times this has happen to me and many other officials. I even know of times where an assignor considers the source of the complaint and ignores them all together. Some assignors are more concerned with their standing with certain schools and do not care about others that might complain.

Agreed and agreed! If the problems are pervasive, the conference may ask that the official no longer work conference contests at all, but as you say, that doesn't keep the official from working anything else in the area. I also have the strong impression that most assignors are very reluctant to work with any official who generates any more phone calls to the assignor than normal. Assigning games seems to be a pretty thankless task - especially around here where individual officials associations are not as much a defining factor.