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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 09:16am
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I did not - I ended up assigned to a JV game somewhere as I recall. It was a bitter pill to swallow.
Unless you're on the coach's chosen list, then I guess it's a great system. Probably one reason why the system stays the way it is.

I'll never understand why coaches are given such power -- it's not like they can go down to the grocery store and pull competent officials off a shelf.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 09:20am
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Unless you're on the coach's chosen list, then I guess it's a great system. Probably one reason why the system stays the way it is.

I'll never understand why coaches are given such power -- it's not like they can go down to the grocery store and pull competent officials off a shelf.
I think one of the reasons they have the power is because they also have the power to determine which association gets to ref their district. The main reason I moved to this association is because it was able to convince 3 of the bigger districts near me to use it instead of the Dallas association. The coaches were the ones they had to convince.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 09:25am
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I think one of the reasons they have the power is because they also have the power to determine which association gets to ref their district. The main reason I moved to this association is because it was able to convince 3 of the bigger districts near me to use it instead of the Dallas association. The coaches were the ones they had to convince.
Just proves the dysfunction of the state organization. When I lived in Tennessee, high schools could change groups, but once they did they had to stay with the new group for a non-trivial number of years -- no exceptions.

It made schools and leagues think long and hard about making such a move.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 11:09am
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Unless you're on the coach's chosen list, then I guess it's a great system. Probably one reason why the system stays the way it is.

I'll never understand why coaches are given such power -- it's not like they can go down to the grocery store and pull competent officials off a shelf.
Well, coaches do seem to have much more to lose (financially and perhaps career wise) than we h.s. officials.

Most h.s. officials I know are not full time referees. They hold down full time jobs away from the court.

These coaches jobs are usually on the line year to year, contract to contract based on wins and losses. No, it's not the NBA where a firing happens at the whim of the owner (AD), but, it's similar in that regard.

Coaches are out there representing their school, drawing a salary and trying to win. We are out there having fun and picking up a $70 check for our ubiased efforts.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 11:15am
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Well, coaches do seem to have much more to lose (financially and perhaps career wise) than we h.s. officials.

Most h.s. officials I know are not full time referees. They hold down full time jobs away from the court.

These coaches jobs are usually on the line year to year, contract to contract based on wins and losses. No, it's not the NBA where a firing happens at the whim of the owner (AD), but, it's similar in that regard.

Coaches are out there representing their school, drawing a salary and trying to win. We are out there having fun and picking up a $70 check for our ubiased efforts.
All of this is precisely why coaches shouldn't have that much control over the officials.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 11:17am
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All of this is precisely why coaches shouldn't have that much control over the officials.
Agreed.

We should be able to do our unbiased, equitable thing w/o worrying about possible negative future reprocussions from a disgruntled coach.
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Well, coaches do seem to have much more to lose (financially and perhaps career wise) than we h.s. officials.

Most h.s. officials I know are not full time referees. They hold down full time jobs away from the court.

These coaches jobs are usually on the line year to year, contract to contract based on wins and losses. No, it's not the NBA where a firing happens at the whim of the owner (AD), but, it's similar in that regard.

Coaches are out there representing their school, drawing a salary and trying to win. We are out there having fun and picking up a $70 check for our ubiased efforts.
Sounds like a whole lot of excuses as to why some states allow the inmates to run the asylum...
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 11:19am
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Well, coaches do seem to have much more to lose (financially and perhaps career wise) than we h.s. officials.

Most h.s. officials I know are not full time referees. They hold down full time jobs away from the court.

These coaches jobs are usually on the line year to year, contract to contract based on wins and losses. No, it's not the NBA where a firing happens at the whim of the owner (AD), but, it's similar in that regard.

Coaches are out there representing their school, drawing a salary and trying to win. We are out there having fun and picking up a $70 check for our ubiased efforts.
Oh, nonsense. Most of the coaches in my area are teachers. The two most successful coaches in the area are high school math teachers. This is HS basketball, and the games are supposed to be part of the educational process. And I know how much HS coaches make in my neck of the woods -- they make less money coaching than I do officiating.

I get that it's different elsewhere, but I'm not in Texas and we're not talking about six figure football coaches.

I have no delusion that my role is something special, but at the same time part of officials being unbiased arbiters is that the coaches shouldn't be able to curry favor by being able to wield a threat of scratching the officials. Or be able to avoid technical fouls by putting such things in the officials' minds.
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Old Fri Jan 18, 2013, 11:22am
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Well, coaches do seem to have much more to lose (financially and perhaps career wise) than we h.s. officials.

Most h.s. officials I know are not full time referees. They hold down full time jobs away from the court.

These coaches jobs are usually on the line year to year, contract to contract based on wins and losses. No, it's not the NBA where a firing happens at the whim of the owner (AD), but, it's similar in that regard.

Coaches are out there representing their school, drawing a salary and trying to win. We are out there having fun and picking up a $70 check for our ubiased efforts.
Coaches around here get a nominal stipend. It is not their full-time job either.

Still, what do their coaching careers have to do with who officiates their games? Picking officials who will give them "homer" calls is their ticket to greatness?
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Coaches around here get a nominal stipend. It is not their full-time job either.

Still, what do their coaching careers have to do with who officiates their games? Picking officials who will give them "homer" calls is their ticket to greatness?
Coaches around here are usually hired as a condition of their overall contact as a teacher. Usually schools do not have a non-teacher coaching any sport. So those coaches are accountable to the school district in many ways. Not that it always works, but if a coach does something that embarrasses the school it can and has affected their real job.

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