New Official

Dan_ref · #17 (**permalink**) Fri Nov 15, 2002, 04:22pm

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Originally posted by Andy

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Originally posted by fletch_irwin_m
3. DON'T DO REC league. If you want to move up, stay away from rec league. What will happen is that if you are doing Rec League every Monday and your assignor needs someone to fill in on a Monday, you wont get the call. Also, not all rec league ref's take it that seriously.

I'm going to disagree here. I think new officials should do as many games at any level that they can get. The more games that you do, the better you get as an official. My experience has also been that you will see all the weird and unusual stuff in the rec league games. Once you see it, then you will know how to handle it.

I'll agree with your disagreement (wha?)

Rookies got a lot of bad calls to get out of their system.
Work as many games as you can tolerate, rec, or whatever.
At some point stop doing them, you'l know when it's time.
But for now just get out there & get some experience.