Good start to the season

[JerryLundagard]

Originally Posted by Rich

Actually, we have no doubleheaders. Commissioners typically assign both the boys and girls sides here -- we have no association or central assignor.

(If there were DHes here, it would have to be JV/V DHes and that simply doesn't happen either. We drove over an hour to our game and the home school hires FR/JV guys directly and usually find local guys who get licensed but have no desire to work anything but FR/JV games at the local schools. Last night there were freshman and JV games going on when I arrived. Both freshman officials wore Adidas wind pants and white sneakers with Byron collar shirts. One of the JV officials wore a Byron collar shirt. Amazing.)

That is so true. I went to high school in Wisconsin and my social studies teacher called about 75% of my JV games. Never thought anything about it at the time. However now that I am reffing and out of the area I find it hard to believe that system is in place.

Around here lower level games are the starting point to most careers. How do the young guys get there start in Wisconsin?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JerryLundagard

That is so true. I went to high school in Wisconsin and my social studies teacher called about 75% of my JV games. Never thought anything about it at the time. However now that I am reffing and out of the area I find it hard to believe that system is in place.

Around here lower level games are the starting point to most careers. How do the young guys get there start in Wisconsin?

They move to Southern California and work college games right away.

Actually, the small percentage that want to get good typically work hard, network through an association, and work varsity games pretty quickly.

If I wanted to never drive more than 10 minutes, I could probably work every FR and JV game at the closest two or three schools. And be out of there by 7PM every night.