Local politics blues

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

An interesting thread - because where I am, coaches have ZERO official input into game assignments, playoff or otherwise. Officials as a whole also have no official input.

For everything below the college level, local associations provide officials to various games, and the association sends the clients a bill. The client then pays the bill.

Certainly local assignors have an ongoing dialogue with coaches, AD's, etc., but playoff and provincial championship assignments are made by a committee of senior officials and/or local executive officers.

Our system must seem downright dictatorial to you folks

You cannot say coaches have no input and then say the assignors talk to them. They might not be the decision makers, which is the way it should be, bu they still have input.

Peace