Local politics blues

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

For me, it's easy. There's only one association for high school basketball and we cover a very large area.

Same here. My local IAABO board is the only game in town for high school basketball, covering three counties, seventy high schools. We hire an assigning commissioner, who works for us. He assigns games under guidelines established by us. The assigning criteria involves ratings, including peer ratings, rankings, and availability, all established by us. We have a committee that reviews his assignments every year to make sure that he fairly assigns games for us. It's about as transparent as you can get.

[Scuba_ref]

Billy's situation sounds just like ours; except we have 9 high schools and the pacific ocean (well within a couple of hours).

Football and basketball both are small associations where we struggle to get enough officials when most of the teams play at home. All of the assigning is reviewed by the board and if you put some effort into it you can move up to varsity fairly quickly.

It probably helps that we are in a lesser populated area where the big town is between 50K and 60K people. I'm not sure how it works in Seattle but I do know that I don't hear rumblings of political strife and the officials that have moved into our area from the big city haven't said much either.

I really feel for you guys that have struggles off the court.