Career No-nos.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Moosie74

A couple of years ago our association got multiple complaints of officials for middle school games wearing jeans, tracksuits, etc to the game site and the athletic directors and coaches did not like it.

Business casual should be the minimum for Jr High games, tie and jacket for varsity.

Here, high school games, business casual. Although one can get away with wearing jeans to Freshman and JV games. Varsity games, business casual at minimum.
Middle school games, they jeans are fine.

Track suits, sweat pants, shredded and holey jeans? Not at any level.

Below MS level and off season, I'm showing up dressed (with my shirt in my bag).

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Adam

Here, high school games, business casual. Although one can get away with wearing jeans to Freshman and JV games. Varsity games, business casual at minimum.
Middle school games, they jeans are fine.

Track suits, sweat pants, shredded and holey jeans? Not at any level.

Below MS level and off season, I'm showing up dressed (with my shirt in my bag).

Saturday morning games (usually JV or Sophomore B) are the only days that you see it common for people to show up in anything less then standard. The key is getting there on time, but still assignors do not want people to show up dressed. Keep in mind when I say this, that means you could come in parts of your uniform under clothes, but you do not tell everyone you have your uniform on by wearing black pants or officiating shoes. So a "track suit" might be what some wear.

I do not work MS or JH games anymore, most of the time people are there as a body to make money. No one cares about those games and what you wear here honestly. People who assign those games also have little association with high school games and many would not care what their requirements are. I just know when I worked those games I came in other clothes then my uniform. And if I worked a game today I still would show up in regular clothes.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Saturday morning games are the only days that you see it common for people to show up in anything less then standard.

Oddly, it's just the opposite here (although not morning, usually afternoon). Saturdays are usually prep school assignments here in Connecticut. Our local board traditionally gives a slightly higher value to prep school games than to public, or Catholic, high school games. Varsity officials assigned are usually among our best guys. Junior varsity officials are usually varsity officials who are willing to work few junior varsity games. Nobody ever shows up to a prep school assignment in jeans, it's always business casual, and some officials, especially the older veterans, will occasionally wear a tie, and jacket, to a prep school game.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... MS or JH games ... No one cares about those games ... People who assign those games also have little association with high school games.

Yet another example of "When in Rome ...". Most public middle school games are assigned by the same assigner who assigns our high school games. These assignments are treated like any other subvarsity assignment for the same pay ($58.21 last season). Our assigner expects the officials to follow the same guidelines for a public middle school game as for any other local board high school assignment (except for adjustments due to the lack of changing facilities in many of these middle schools). These officials are rated, and ranked, as any other subvarsity official, and the number, and level, of their assignment, as well as their eventual promotion to varsity, depends on these ratings, and rankings.

Note: Catholic middle school games are assigned by another assigner, and are treated completely separately from our high school, and public middle school games, in much the same manner as stated by JRutledge in his post above.