An hour, 45 minute MS game

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Really? Middle School officiating is a no win situation. It's the worst level to call. It does very little to advance anyone's officiating career.

I don't agree with this at all. If you didn't have a stepping system then where would the training of officials occur?

Middle School games are the training ground for high school games, high school games prepare you for college, college prepares you for NBA D-League or NBA.

As a second year official, I have learned a lot in Middle School games, is the quality of play good? Sometimes no, sometimes it's pretty good but at that level I've learned what's a rules violation, what's a foul, how to signal and where to stand.

Having just started working JV games this year I would be no where near ready to step on the floor for one of them if I had not had middle school games under my belt.

I personally would prefer to pay my dues and work my way up the ladder than start at the JV level because that really says to some officials, ok, I'm at the JV level to start, I must be good, where's my varsity schedule?