A Fond Farewell

[refhoops]

Unfortunately, our forum has lost one of our voices of reason. As a relative newcomer to this disfunctional family I have come to respect you comments and views. I know in my small world it has help me become a better official. I wish you nothing but success and looking forward to seeing you on Big Monday!

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by refhoops

Unfortunately, our forum has lost one of our voices of reason. As a relative newcomer to this dysfunctional family I have come to respect your comments and views. I know in my small world it has helped me become a better official. I wish you nothing but success and I am looking forward to seeing you on Big Monday!

Does this help fill a void???

[Ref_ Fred]

Chuck it was nice knowing you for the short time, You have been comforting to me when others weren't. Thank you.. But BUT go under an ALIAS instead Elias.. LOL

Good Luck have a great season. let's us know when you will be on the tube.. Who is going to take the grammar/spelling king job..

[refnrev]

I certainly hate to see one of the best voices on this forum leave us.

[Back In The Saddle]

Wow. I cannot conceive of the forum with Chuck Elias.

I appreciate all you have contributed over these many years. I hope you feel that your contributions have been valued and that your participation has returned to you manifold in the form of personal grown, currently culminating in this opportunity.

I'd be happy to send you my login and you can continue to post as BITS. The advantages to this scheme are two-fold. First, the intelligence of my posts would improve dramatically. Second, if you ever did say anything outrageous or career-wrecking, everybody already expects it of me anyway!

You will be missed.

[PGCougar]

Wow. I guess it's good bye to the Chuck we know and love on this board. I can understand the reasons, but it makes me sad anyway. I imagine it would have been fun to hear about your new experiences first-hand.

Hope you choose to come here under an alias and still dole out that great advice. That ought to create some fun as people try to guess if it's you or not.

Best of luck!

[Love2ref4Ever]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

After talking about this with some friends from the board and some other officials, I've decided to stop contributing to the forum. As Mick alluded to in the baseball thread, I was hired by a couple of D1 conferences (although I didn't recieve any assignments from one of them). Although it's not very likely, I don't want any of my comments to be misconstrued and then passed on to an assignor.

Fear not, I will be back to start the annual baseball thread. And I'll keep reading. But I won't be posting very much anymore. If for some unknown reason somebody wants my input on something, you could still email me through the forum.

It's been great, guys and gals. Everybody have a great season.

Hey Chuck, you don't have to leave on my account! Wonder if Chuck knows that there are spies in these rooms? Hey Chuck, give me a minute to throw some water on a few of these refs, let's see which one is wearing a wire1

[zebraman]

Congrats on the D1 contracts Chuck!

Let us know if we can pick up one of your games on the tube.