When is it too late to turnback a game ???????

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I don't know most assignors. But I can tell you that none of my assignors (including my D2 assignor) feels that way. I have been very fortunate, I guess, to have assignors who have operated with the understanding that the higher level game gets the higher priority.

I think this, like everything, is regional. I don't have one HS assignor. I have about a dozen conference commissioners who assign and I usually have (at most) 4 games a season from each commissioner (with one exception, where I work about 10). Here you simply can't dump a game back into an assignor's lap unless you want to pay the consequences -- if you secure a qualified sub and bring that name to the conversation, then the commissioner doesn't really care, for the most part. Our games are scheduled well in advance, though -- I just picked up a game in 2013, for example. Our assignors don't try to pick and choose the *best crew* for the *best game* because who knows what the best game will be 3 years from now?

I get off more than my fair share of games. I travel for a living and if a work trip comes along I can't weasel my way out of, I have to turn back games. Officiating doesn't pay the mortgage, after all.

I have no goal of being a fulltime college official. So unlike others here, I would look at a small college game 3 hours from the house and a HS game 15 minutes from the house and pick the HS game *every time*. This is what I did in baseball, and it frustrated the college assignor when I told him, "No, thanks, I already have a HS DH." Funny thing was, it never meant he wouldn't call me -- I just don't think he was used to someone telling him that a little old HS varsity game meant just as much to me as a small college game. Well, it did and it still does.