Unexpected email

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Dan,
In my state all games are scheduled through the referee associations. There are three for the entire state. It is divided up geographically.
The ADs have no need to contact an individual referee about anything. Thus they don't need to have access to our phone numbers, email addresses, or physical addresses. All changes are made through the association assignors. The schools contact these people and they in turn contact the referees and pass along the needed information.

As there is no reason to contact an individual referee prior to a contest, there certainly is no reason to do so following a game. Our board/president needs to serve as the liaison/buffer. BTW that is the policy of our current board/president, but the information is still available through the assigning software. I don't agree with that.

PS All pay checks come from the association, not the individual schools.

Then I guess I live in a different world than you. All my contact information is on the web-based assignment packages I use and I have pretty regular contact with most ADs or at least their office. This was the case even before assignments were tracked on the web. I've never had a problem with it.