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What is the highest the kicker has ever been?
My state of residence is Alaska so I'm somewhat familiar with getting money back. The most I ever got was $995, but it got to around $2k at one point.
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It didn't effect me. I took me four years to make "split", and four more years to make full varsity, two years more than the minumum. Note: We have over 280 officials, 85 are considered full varsity, 30 are considered "split". We service about 70 high schools, most with both boys and girls programs, as well as many freshman programs, and many middle school programs. Last edited by BillyMac; Tue Jan 01, 2008 at 02:57pm. |
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This system would prohibit a retired NCAA D-1 Final Four experienced official from working varsity for seven years. Incredible.
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Juulie - do you think Howard would give Joey Crawford some varsity games if he retired and moved to Portland? ![]() WOW! Joey Crawford working HS. I'd pay to see that. Can't you just see him working an Oregon City girls game!
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One of my proudest moments when I was a first time board member in the local baseball association was to help kill a similar restriction that had been in place for years, even though I was one of the senior officials being protected. We now evaluate all transfers and assign them to the appropriate level. Before that, we had professional umpires restricted to JV games. We also recognize that not all officials develop at the same rate. Some might need seven years of training, growth and experience to work a full varsity level. Most don't. There are a number of good NCAA officials who began their college career within five years of working high school ball. As far as your argument of taking time to "dial it down", many D-1 officials concurrently work a few high school games during their season. They know how to dial it down.
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We are living in America, where we are supposed to award ability, hard work and achievement. Your system penalizes officials for possessing those qualities and ultimately hurts your association as it denies you top officials and discourages offseason improvement. Every association should have 2 goals: 1) service the game of basketball by matching the best crew of available officials on each game and 2) service its officials by matching them on games and with partners that allow them to develop and improve. Your group's system does neither. |
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Within each level (junior varsity, "split", full varsity) there are rankings that determine the number of games that you will be assigned. A junior varsity official may receive anywhere from 6 to 27 games a season depending on their ranking. A "split" official may receive anywhere from 14 to 22 junior varsity games, and from 4 to 12 varsity games a season depending on their ranking. A full varsity official may receive anywhere from 8 to 43 varsity games a season depending on their ranking. Rankings are determined mainly by peer ratings. Rankings also depend, in a smaller part, on refresher exam scores, attendance at meetings, and availability to officiate. Officials on our local board take time on their own to go to camps, work hard in the offseason, and do the things that they need to do to improve their game, because they want their peer ratings to improve, to improve their assigned schedule, and also, want to move up to the next level. Officials who do not work hard to improve their game, will see their peer ratings drop, and not only will their assigned games decrease, they may also fall far enough in the rankings to drop from full varsity to "split", or from "split" to junior varsity only. Our former assigner used to say that a varsity official on our local board is not like a Supreme Court Justice or the Pope. Varsity officials are not varsity officials for life. They must prove their worth every season, or low peer ratings will lead to low rankings, which may lead to a lower level assigned schedule. |
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