Calling out a fellow official? Advice needed.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by ODog

That's interesting. What's the philosophy behind that? I'm genuinely curious.

To keep officials humble and reward guys willing to "take some for the team" perhaps?

Perhaps for newer, JV-only, officials to get the chance to work with some of the top officials a few times??? That would certainly be good for mentoring and training of newer officials.

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Perhaps for newer, JV-only, officials to get the chance to work with some of the top officials a few times??? That would certainly be good for mentoring and training of newer officials.

We do that around here a few times a year. Our assignor likes us to get out and work with some of the newer officials, for the exact reasons you stated Camron.

A couple other reasons...

* heavy nights require more officials

* Sometimes the Varsity crew travels to a school and does the FROSH. or SOPH. game, usually in another gym, then the Varsity game. This saves the school mileage payment...our association pays the 3-Whistle crew doing both games ONE mileage payment. (The other crew doing the JV game and other lower level game get ONE mileage payment also.)

BTW...the one official that drives gets the $ for mileage and he is expected to buy snacks and beverages for the other two officials on the way home.

The varsity guys doing the FROSH./SOPH. games makes for some interesting dynamics.

Usually, the less experienced crew is doing the JV game.

[jTheUmp]

Around here, most of my games are doubleheaders. Depending on size of the school, you might get something like this:

9A/9B
9th/B-squad (10th grade)
B-squad/JV
JV/V

Most of the time, at the biggest schools, a game night will have B/JV/V games back-to-back-to-back. One crew will generally get the B/JV doubleheader at 4:30 and 6:00, and a different crew will get the 7:30 varsity game. The smaller schools will usually only have a JV/V doubleheader, and the same crew will handle both games.

I've even got one night in a couple of weeks where we have 4 officials covering 4 games like this:
Me and Partner #1 doing the JV game at 5:30
Partner #2 and New Guy doing the 5:30 freshman game.
Me, Parther #1, and Partner #2 doing the Varsity game at 7:00.

Back on topic though... I could've written the same post as you did about a game I had last season... it happens.

My advice: call/email your assigner. My assigner is very adamant that we call him first if there's a situation that he's going to be get called about from an AD... he wants to know our side of the story before he talks to the school. Phrase the conversation in a "hey, I'm wondering if you've gotten any feedback on my performance" style rather than a "That Guy's terrible" style.