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[drinkeii]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Forget whether I'm happy or not. Your original answer was misleading and IMO you did that on purpose. I could go on and on about that, but I won't.

You are talking like you have this thing beat, but you don't. In reality, very few of us do (not me). However, you cannot tell an assigner what to do or have such a hard stance on officiating at such an early stage of your career. You could slow your progress down by doing what you are talking about when you make it to varsity. The R could report back to your assigner and your progress could come to a halt. Just think about it. If you are using the board to vent that is cool. Just let that be known.

First, I was not being misleading - I consider myself to have been officiating sports for 8 years - soccer and swimming for 8, and basketball for 6. I actually have been officiating basketball for close to 8, just not with the PIAA.

As for progress, I am relatively happy with the level of games I work. Some people have aspirations to become a college official or professional - I'm happy where I'm at. I like to try to get better, but don't necessarily see a need to move up to higher levels.

And no, I can't tell an assignor what to do. But I can have a problem with how they do things, and be willing to make this publically known. I don't have a problem with our current assignors in any of the sports I officiate.

We have different rules interpreters and assignors in our chapters. I think this is a good thing. But I also find it interesting that the rules interpreter gives very detailed information about how certain rules are to be interpreted, and many officials just do whatever they want, and get games anyway. I'm not talking mechanics - I'm talking the rules themselves. This makes no sense to me. Besides, again - the mechanics are guidelines - the rules are the rules.