Being a martyr can be expensive. Prohibitively so in some cases.......

Ohio needs to blow up their present system completely imo. That ain't gonna happen though until the great majority of officials get together and say "Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness...and that's enuff of this sh!t!"

The worst part is they just revamped the system to include the officials votes as a part of the eligibility for post season games.

What we need is a system where we (as officials) can give a sportsmanship rating to coaches. Something that would have clout. I would guess that Technical's and ejections would suffice as is.
The Columbus City League schools ask officials to rate each site on several topics such as site manager's helpfulness, coach, players and fans sportmanship. This provides feedback to the the district on issues that need to be addressed that may have not come to the ejection of a coach, player or fan phase.

JR:

The OhioHSAA will never (sorry for using the "N" word J. Dallas) overall its present system. The coaches, athletic directors, and principals have a strangle hold of the OhioHSAA. The ironic part agout the whole situation is that the OhioHSAA does not charge any of its member schools a membership fee. A substantial portion of its funding for its operations come for the annual registration fees that it charges its sports officials. Based on the amount of mone that the OhioHSAA rakes in from its sports officials, its registered sports officials should have a 50% say in the running of the OhioHSAA. I am afraid that it will take an official who is a lawyer who has the financial resources to sue the OhioHSAA for officials to be taken seriously in the OhioHSAA.

MTD, Sr.