Is there a reason you're resurrecting a thread that's been dead for nearly two months?

This statement is true. To chine in, I think that if your objective to officiating is to work the playoff's in HS. You might be in it for the wrong reasons, and I think that some of these assigners might be able to see that desperation in you, a bad quality. If you're looking at quiting officiating because you didn't get a playoff game, then you where desperate.

To answer the question does all associations act this this. Hell yes! They are all the same. The assigners son at age 20 something will work playoff games before you, you can bet that. Just like I wonder how much of John Thompson III ability got him the head coaching job as opposed to dear old Dad influence. I'm sure there was a lot of other good candidates.

In any event, if officiating to you is all about working the big games. I feel sorry for you, because that is a long and lonesome road to go down and you will spend a lot of nights unhappy. Maybe you should just hang em up. However, on the other hand, I enjoy officiating and I no longer do it for the biggest games. I do it to stay in shape and see how good I can get and how far I can go with the understanding that it's good if I do and it's good if I don't. Thing about it, and take this as advise. If you're trying to move up into better games, you're going to have to quit working a lot of these lower level games or develop a style that you work hard each time out. IOW's, don't let these AAU assigners set you up with too many games and you are dirt tired towards the end and likewise look stupid or lazy working these games. There could be one of these HS decision makers there and they see you in this state, and that's bad news for your career, believe me. I'm sure it has happen to a lot of us and continues to happen because a lot of officials don't get this. It might be your 6th game but it's the state supervisors brothers first game on that court. So from this point on, you can take no more days off when you officiate because you never know who's watching. You want to work the big games, you got to bring it everytime out the gate. Or you can let the lower level games go so that you can only be seen when it's to your advantage, like at the camps. Notice how the guys that are working the finals, you don't see out working any ole games. There is a reason for that.

All in all, like the one poster said. If you are good, keep getting better and someone will take notice. A wise man once, you can't keep a good man down.

A wise man once also said (and I think it was JR) -- ok so maybe not so wise but wiser than ^^

anyways -- he said dont listen to anything by ^^ and if you take advice from ^^ then that's not very good. (I paraphrased -- JR had a few adult words in there that I am not allowed to use because of my dainty little ears).