Local politics blues

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by 7IronRef

good ole boy network = i can't get ahead based on how good i think i am

Spoken like a good ole boy. This had nothing to do with whether I could get ahead or not, nor anything to do with my own talent level.

the same principles apply to referees as they do to players, if they are good enough they will be identified.

If things were run right, you would be correct. That fact that what you say here is NOT the way things work is the problem.

sorry you are not getting the games you think you should be, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of sports officials that aren't getting the 1 BIG game had on any given night....STFU

I stopped working here - not because of the games I got, but rather because I could no longer in good conscious support a group that was run so corruptly. When you show up week after week and work with officials that clearly have no idea what they are doing, but continue to get work because they were drinking buds with the scheduler or the nephew of the VP, or whatever - it grinds on you.

You make a lot of assumptions, and you clearly have no grasp of what the actual problems were (and still are).