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[SMEngmann]

The other point that is missing about college ready is that college assignors will not necessarily hire the best ref available but will instead hire the ref who has the most potential so he can build the ranks. I've seen a number of very very good older officials not get hired at the college level while younger guys on the way up get the look. Of course this varies from coordinator to coordinator, area to area, but it makes sense to hire someone who will be working for you for 20 years rather than someone who might just arrive for a cup of coffee, so long as the young ref has reached a certain level of competence.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SMEngmann

The other point that is missing about college ready is that college assignors will not necessarily hire the best ref available but will instead hire the ref who has the most potential so he can build the ranks. I've seen a number of very very good older officials not get hired at the college level while younger guys on the way up get the look. Of course this varies from coordinator to coordinator, area to area, but it makes sense to hire someone who will be working for you for 20 years rather than someone who might just arrive for a cup of coffee, so long as the young ref has reached a certain level of competence.

BTW your last post before this one was outstanding.

Also what can get you hired is your location. John Adams that is the soon to be NCAA Men's Coordinator made it very clear to campers that were prospective D2 officials for the conference he assigned, if you lived in certain locations you would get hired pretty much off the spot. And that was very clear who he did not hire when I attended his last camp. So it is not every about who they can mold. Sometimes it is where you live and how many games they can give you in certain locations without much of a problem.

Peace

[rockyroad]

We also need to acknowledge that "college-ready" will differ from place to place. If there are more colleges in an area, they will need more officials and will hire some peop-le who would never even get a second glance in an area with fewer colleges...or the fact that when one college assignor picks up a newer official, other assignors feel like they "have" to hire that person also so they won't "lose" them. At times it makes absolutely no sense...

And as far as SoCal officials, I work games with officials from SoCal. Some of them are very good. Some stink...either way, it's certainly not because of where they are from.