Cooling off

[GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by Old School

I do not understand why people get so frustrated about working HS playoff games. The majority of the ball simply is not that good for the amount of bull you have to go thru to get a chance to do it. You are lucky, you are among the chosen few. However, you are too young to understand the problem. In all businesses, not just this one, there are people that will feel like this when you move up, especially when they think they are just as deserving. I'm going to give you some excellent advice for your young career. Do not look back, nothing can be of benefit to you by going in that direction. Keep your eyes and career moving forward in the positive direction that you are now going. You have just as much work to do now, then you had to get here. Don't screw it up by focusing on the wrong thing. Hell no, do you say anything to him about it.

Now, to the problem. More often than not, selection to HS playoffs is more political then it is how good you are. If you think you got there on your merits, you are fooling yourself. You're 25 years old and you're working state playoffs over someone who has been wanting to do it for 15 years or longer. That's BS in my opinion. That's age discrimination. Of course you are younger, faster, more energetic, bah, bah, bah. However, as good as you think you are, you do not have the experience of a 15 year veteran. This is a dog eat dog business. Enjoy it, you are truly lucky and you don't even know it.

Just because you have been doing a job for 15 years doesn't meen that you are better than the guy who has only been working for 7 years.

[David B]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

Just because you have been doing a job for 15 years doesn't meen that you are better than the guy who has only been working for 7 years.

More often than not, I see many officials with 15+ years of "experience" who are simply not good officials.

15 years of doing what? That doesn't equate with being a good official.
Now if there is 15 years of being a good official that's different, but that is simply not always the case.

I know many veteran officials that I haved worked with who have the years, but are not qualified (or rather should not be qualified) for playoffs.

But here it is state tournament time and I run into them every year ...

Thanks
David