I'll be Seeing These Guys Tomorrow

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

And then have no scorekeeper or clock operator, or not enough management on site in case anything goes wrong...or do you for some reason think that all those people should just volunteer their time?

Fwiw, around here the schools do not pay teachers extra for doing this stuff. There are paid security personnel, but they are not teachers. Teachers are "paid" by being given season passes for volunteering at a certain number of after school activities.

I think the issue is not whether you pay them, but that you pay people that are really under the wing of the officials, then pay those individuals more than the people you claim are so essential to the game. Now I have seen people out of the stands volunteer to work the table and often at youth tournaments that is exactly what they do. And not all those people are teachers. Many times they are parents or some person that was once close to the program or retired people and still go to games and give back to their school. If officials do not show up, they move the entire game or only play until the first guy they call shows up with a license. Then they claim we have to do all these other things to keep the kids safe. You do not pay the flight attendant more money than you do the pilot.

Peace