Advice on when to move up

[JRutledge]

Years of experience is not a very good determiner to me. You can be doing this for 3 years and only have done 20 games over that time. And if you did not go to camps at all during that time, you might not at all be a good official. And that could go for a 10 veteran. I think the type of experience you have is much better determiner of what kind of official you will be. Not just the years of experience. I would rather work with the second year official that went to camps every year and did 150 game in one year, ranging for Freshman to JV in High School. Then the 10 year guy, who only renews his license to get about 20 games each year at the HS level, and does all rec. ball most of the time. Yeah, that veteran might have had 150 games under his/her belt, but if they are doing a rec. game, chances are they did not have to be concerned about the many things that goes on in a HS environment.

Years of experience mean very little by themselves to me.

Peace