Iowa high school basketball games postponed due to referee no-show

[Raymond]

All or both of the officials fail to show, seems like the school made a mistake.

[letemplay]

Wonder if there was any attempt to find or use a replacement crew. Anybody ever get a last minute local call like that or seen something like the AD and V asst coach doing the girls and some vice versa combo for boys?

[BEAREF]

Originally Posted by letemplay

Wonder if there was any attempt to find or use a replacement crew. Anybody ever get a last minute local call like that or seen something like the AD and V asst coach doing the girls and some vice versa combo for boys?

“It’s very unfortunate that you have that type of thing happen,” Barr said. “But we don’t take over official scheduling until the postseason.”
IKM-Manning attempted to reach out to local officials, hoping someone might have been available, but the games were finally waved off after 45 minutes of waiting.

It says that they did...

[Rich]

Somebody screwed up -- two sets of officials don't simply no show for an event.

I like how they mention signed contracts. And yet if the school decided to cancel for any reason at any time before the game they'd not look to honor their side of the contract.

I continue to beat the drum -- schools see contracts as one-way documents when it comes to officials.

[VaTerp]

Another reason that having an assigner from an officiating association is much better than having schools contract directly with officials IMO.

[tjones1]

Certainly not good.

But there's another side to this story. I highly doubt the officials just didn't want to go.

I doubt we'll hear the other side of the story.

[Adam]

Meanwhile, two officials are are on a private board somewhere discussing whether they're going to get paid after showing up to the school on their contract only to find the game was 100 miles away.

I wonder if they actually tried to call the scheduled officials.

[letemplay]

Originally Posted by BEAREF

“It’s very unfortunate that you have that type of thing happen,” Barr said. “But we don’t take over official scheduling until the postseason.”
IKM-Manning attempted to reach out to local officials, hoping someone might have been available, but the games were finally waved off after 45 minutes of waiting.

It says that they did...

Sorry, see that now. Can you find it in your heart, especially this time of year, to forgive me?

[Tio]

Hard to say what happened, but I agree with others that this is one side of the story. If both officials didn't show, there had to be some circumstances... the assignor assigning the game at the visiting school, wrong date, etc.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Tio

Hard to say what happened, but I agree with others that this is one side of the story. If both officials didn't show, there had to be some circumstances... the assignor assigning the game at the visiting school, wrong date, etc.

No assigners involved here, officials are hired directly by the AD. My money is on the date or a car accident.
The officials would have driven together, these are all rural schools.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Twice, in the last three years, Mark, Jr., and I have had contracts to officiate H.S. basketball games where we sent a reminder email that included all pertinent contact information and attached copies of our contracts, with the email CC to our assigner. In the former case the AD never bothered to contact us or our assigner that she had canceled the game, and in the later (just last week) the AD moved the game up two days and never told us or our assigner and then was leaving voice mails on Junior's cell phone wanting to know why we were not at her game (because we were on the court officiating a basketball game).

MTD, Sr.

[BEAREF]

Originally Posted by letemplay

Sorry, see that now. Can you find it in your heart, especially this time of year, to forgive me?

Most certainly

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

All or both of the officials fail to show, seems like the school made a mistake.

You mean in this day and age with cell phones and smart phones he does not know what happened?

It sounds like he did not confirm much of anything if this happens and he does not know why the officials never showed up.

Peace

[zm1283]

Yeah something is definitely up here. If one guy doesn't show, I'll buy it. But if an entire crew (Or two) doesn't show up, some wires got crossed somewhere.

Like Rut said, if the AD confirmed officials for the game, he has their cell numbers. Why not call them and find out what was going on?

[JRutledge]

Also chances are in Iowa that schools assign "crews" that normally work together. So something must have happen either with the contract (wrong date) or he gave them something totally erroneous to not show up. I have dealt in that system of assigning and you would be surprised how many mistakes ADs make in their scheduling. I think he told the media what he did to take the pressure off of himself and tried to make it sound like the officials screwed up. If I have guys texting me the game status yesterday, I am sure he could have done the same or a similar confirmation process.

Peace