Why do High School officials dislike College officials so much?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Because they did the work that was required to be eligible for the post-season.

Exactly. There are minimum requirements established to be eligible for considersation. If you meet the requirements, you should "expect" to be given consideration. Along with every other person who met the requirements.

From that pool, one would also reasonably expect that those officials who can best do the job will be selected. Funny enough, often that means those officials who have excelled at even higher levels will be chosen.

You can argue all day long about whether those officials work higher levels because they're better, or whether they got better by working higher levels. You can even posit that some are just lucky schmucks who really don't even deserve good HS varsity games. C'est la vie.