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Old Sat Jun 10, 2006, 07:11pm
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Neither, Although I do work with officials from both associations. I've been asked to officiate with both...I also do some work for Central and Battlefield.
Not trying to be nosy, but I just wondering if we had worked together. I assume (I know what happens when you assume) that these are not games contracted by CBOA since non-CBOA officials cannot work games that the associciation contracted. At least that is what I was told. I know that a few CBOA officials do work with other associations.
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Old Tue Jun 13, 2006, 12:53pm
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I was asked to officiate for CBOA, I am considering for next season. If you are an indepedent contractor how can they tell you what to officiate? That is one reason why I won't do CBOA games.
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Old Tue Jun 13, 2006, 01:39pm
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I was asked to officiate for CBOA, I am considering for next season. If you are an indepedent contractor how can they tell you what to officiate? That is one reason why I won't do CBOA games.

CBOA doesn't tell you what you have to officiate, you can pick and choose from a variety of leagues, levels, etc as they use the Arbiter in self assign mode for many (most) of their recreation leagues. Scholastic games are another beast, but they have a great training and evaluation program to create quality varsity officials. For the most part, you won't just walk right into Cardinal the first year and call varsity. There is a straightforward program of how transfers get accepted and a definition of each level of official they have in the association (Varsity, Swing, JV, Applicant).

I also know that if you wish, you can always work non-CBOA games/leagues. My father is a varsity official (after 5 years of hard work) and he still works for the independent youth league where we both started our careers.

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Old Wed Jun 14, 2006, 05:41am
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@refva: Maybe I didn't say it very well, but what I trying to explain is that in a cboa assigned game, you will not see a cboa official and a non-cboa official. Your are right, as an independent contractor, you can work anywhere you choose to work. Not sure exactly what you meant by "tell you what to officiate". Because we use the Arbiter system, and you can "self assign" games, you can (generally) pick & choose any game/time/location you want. That being said, the system was originally set up so that 1st & 2nd year officials could not assign themselves to the more high level games. I was told this was done because most 1st and 2nd year officials did not yet have the skills for that level. This obviously isn't true for everyone.

@ocreferee: I know and have worked with your dad. He is a damn good official and my personal opinion is he should have been moved up earlier that he was. Cardinal has a pretty good training/advancement program. However, like most associations, we have officials that should have advanced quicker and some officials that should not have advanced. I have seen the association ask officials to go back through the summer evaluation program. We used to refer to this as the Flint Hill Program, because of where it was held.
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Old Wed Jun 14, 2006, 07:18am
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Not sure exactly what you meant by "tell you what to officiate".
What I meant was, there are some association that don't want you to work for other associations. They think that they have the sole right to your skills. I have hit that block a couple of times. So it is a sensitive topic with most of the officials that I work with. they try not to verbalize where they work.

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Old Wed Jun 14, 2006, 09:25am
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What I meant was, there are some association that don't want you to work for other associations. They think that they have the sole right to your skills. I have hit that block a couple of times. So it is a sensitive topic with most of the officials that I work with. they try not to verbalize where they work.
That's how my HS association is. We are not allowed to work leagues/tournament for which our association unsuccessfully made a bid. It's a bullsh*t rule for more reasons than I care to get into in this forum.

We have a HS commissioner and a Rec League commissioner and all assigning is done at their whim. Definitely a touchy subject here on the Peninsula.
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