If it's who I think it is, he looks a lot younger than he is.

Juulie - maybe I should have posted my real picture.

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Concerning this discussion, here is the biggest travesty: there are many officials out there who would do a great job, are built like tanks and can run like a deer. But, they will either never get their shot on big TV games or will have filled out by the time they do. The crazy thing about it is I think there is more basketball on the east coast, but younger officials get a better chance on the west coast. Talk about going from 0-100mph, one of my friends went from doing Juco to the Pac-10 because that is how it is. He worked to the point where he got some conference games and had to resign; he is currently in Korea officiating their pro league. I regularly saw those opportunities on the east coast, but it often came down to politics.

South, I hope. :eek:

I have a good friend whom I saw for the first time 3 seasons ago reffing a JV girls game at the worst HS girls program in the region. He was 22. 1 1/2 years later he was picked up in 3 NCAA conferences at 24 (a D1, D2, & D3).

Now he's 25 and in 2 D1's and 2 D3's and the NBA-D league. And still ref'n HS games on my board.

Good for you man. That happened to me. I was entering my 3rd of high school and was hired NCAA D3 and Junior college mens. I was hired when I was 19 then I was 20 by the time the season started. I'm 22 and in my 3rd season of college ball. Good Job bro...

Continued good luck to you Ben. Saw your name in a boxscore last week. Good job!!!!

Thanks BNR. I hope all is well. I haven't seen you in about 2 yrs. or has it been 3 already? Anyway let me know how things have been going sometime.

Tomegun is right. There are a lot of young officials out there who are really good but due to certain "things", whatever they may be, they don't get a shot as soon as they should, but surely they should get a shot before too long, there are just so many old guys who seem to be ready to retire and I think it is going to happen in a big bundle, but we'll see and maybe then those young guys will get a shot.

Steve Anderson from UF
 

I believe the IM Coordinator at University of Florida is only 25 or 26 and he has a Division I College Schedule.

http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/steve-anderson

-KG

Go Gators! NIT this year..

The poster right above you worked one of those games with Steve Anderson.

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Originally Posted by MOfficial Great Advise. A lot of guys around my area are intimidated to say something to me or talk to me about things because I am so young. I appreciate what you said.

Hi.


Can I offer a suggestion - to see the difference between two words:


advice. Advise is a verb which means to offer a suggestion. Advice is the information given, namely that it's better to be a year late than a year early.

In advanze, thanks for that correction.

Wellmer must be the youngest because when his pants fall down, you can see he's wearing Pampers.

Oh wait - that might indicate he's the oldest. :rolleyes:

And,
 

I was 28 when I worked my first major college (there was no name like D-1 in the OLD days) basketball game. We still had jump balls, four-corner offenses and a field goal only counted two points.

I worked my first major college baseball game when I was 20.

Regards,

Do scrimmages count?
If so I've worked in WNBA, Pac 10 and a few others when I was 28.