Soliciting games

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Bart Tyson
I agree JR. I guess here in Wichita KS, The only thing not acceptable here is asking coaches to submit their name for post season. How esle are you supposed to get games unless you ask THE Assigner? We have multi-supervisors in this area and thats how i got started. I would call and ask what do i need to do the work the league. All most all say,"send filled date sheets".

At the end of my first year, my partner and I called over a 100 schools (we did not have assignors) and asked every AD that we could speak to, "how do we get games at your school." Some would tell us, "I have some openings." Some would say, "we get our guys from (fill in) Official's Association." Others would say, "we have a certain number of guys we rotate." And others would say, "you are willing to come here to work a game? I have a game here for you." Most ADs were very appreciative we contacted them. We just did it over the phone instead of through the mail (which was suggested by our association). My partner and I had a sales background and had no problem "cold calling" for the lack of a better word, ADs to find out how to work at schools that were not tied to our association.

When I moved to the Chicago area, I had the names of several assignors and called a few of them that I thought I would be willing to work for. I called Official's Associations to ask who assigned for them or who assigned in their area. I was even told to attend camps of certain assignors to get a "try out" of sorts. Most of the assignors that I talked to told me to "send an availibility sheet" and they wanted some background information of my experience. I was doing varsity games before I moved up here, so I did get some varsity with the assignors that saw me during camps my first year here. But I still did some JV and Freshman level games. But I would have never worked at all if I did not call the assignors in the first place.

Peace