What to wear?

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by zebraman


Some schools don't provide a place to get dressed. Some games are so close to the time a person gets off work that there may not be time to get dressed at the site. In that case, showing up dressed would be far more professional than showing up at game time and holding the game up while you dressed.

Z

You need to learn that my comments do not apply to everyone around the country. In my area you get dressed at the game site if you want to be taken seriously. No excuses, no excuses. Are there officials that get dressed before the game starts, they sure do, but it does not help them be precieved better by folks that have to work with them or the assignors that give the games. This is all about professionalism and we should carry ourselves in a professional manner. I would assume in many cases that there is at least a locker room for the teams, so if they do nothing but put us in a coaches room or office, that is better than being able to have to answer questions or be approached by fans that might not like the way you are calling the game. All it takes is one unfortunate moment, and your policies will change drastically. I do not have my NF Official's Manual right in front of me, but they have many things that Game Management can and should do to provide a safe environment for the officials and participants, this is one of them if I am not mistaken.

If I am wrong about this, please correct me, but I thought you were under an association or chapter that provided some kind of standards with the schools. If you have such a Chapter, you should demand better accomidations. Because this is never something I have to worry about and I have never done a HS game of any kind and did not have a personal lockerroom or some where that I could dress in relative privacy. And I have worked all over this great state, this has never been a problem.

Peace

[zebraman]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JRutledge

You need to learn that my comments do not apply to everyone around the country.

Thanks. That was exactly my point.

If I am wrong about this, please correct me, but I thought you were under an association or chapter that provided some kind of standards with the schools. If you have such a Chapter, you should demand better accomidations.


We don't demand, we work with the local schools. Some times there are several games being played at once at the same school(frosh, JV, "C" and Soph) and there just aren't enough accomodations to go around. In those cases, or in cases where someone is coming directly to an afternoon game from work (or sometimes directly from another game), it seems silly to expect them to dress onsite.

Z