Louisiana Officials Possible Strike?

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Originally Posted by BillyMac

For high school varsity games, never. Schools will seldom schedule the boys/girls varsity doubleheaders that I see other Forum members posting about. Also, when these rare doubleheaders are scheduled, or when high school Holiday Tournament varsity doubleheaders are scheduled, different crews get the assignments.

The most common type of doubleheaders assigned are 4:00 p.m. freshman games followed by 5:30 p.m. junior varsity games. One, or both, of the freshman officials may stay at the site for the junior varsity assignment. This is because we do not have a lot of available officials for midafternoon games. Most of them have day jobs, and can't make the 4:00 p.m. start. When our officials do work said doubleheader, they get two full game fees. (Two subvarsity fees, $57.25 + $57.25 = $114.50)

When I work for my Catholic middle school assigner, he will cut the rate for a boys/girls varsity (eighth grade) doubleheader, which are almost always assigned as a doubleheader. For example, I have one of these varsity (seven minute periods) doubleheaders tonight. I will walk out with a check for $84.00. One of our Catholic schools does not field a girls varsity team. We will work a single boys varsity game when that school is involved in an assignment, and will walk out of those games with a check for $54.00.

All HS games are DH here. Actually 4 games, JV B/G with one crew, V G/B with another crew. One conference plays at 3:30, 4:45, 6:00 and 7:30, while the other conference plays at 4:00, 5:15, 6:30 and 8. Freshman teams usually play the same team on the road when V/JV are at home on the same day. Middle schools play 4 games starting at 4:30 and Middle school JV plays on Saturdays 2-3 games per Saturday (5 games for the officials at 8 Saturday Morning).