Opener

[egj13]

Originally Posted by Rich

Football ended Saturday. Basketball (year 27) starts tonight.

I've cut back this season. Worked 58 games last year (a mixture of BV and GV). This year I'm looking at about 40 BV games. Not that I don't love working hoops, but working football into basketball into baseball each year means it's probably a good idea to cut back a bit until I can figure out whether I want to leave a sport behind. I've been saying this for at least 10 years now and I still haven't cut a sport out, so I don't anticipate it coming anytime soon. Matter of fact, in the last 10 years I've added (and removed and re-added) college baseball and added college football.

7 games in November, 13 in December, 13 in January, and 7 in February. Seems pretty balanced to me. I'm guessing I'll work more makeups now that I have actual nights off during the season, too.

You have your schedule through Feb already? I don't know what mine is for next week yet! Jealous...

[JetMetFan]

Two fun facts for me this season (so far):

*I actually have my schedule through early February. I’ve never had my schedule further than three weeks in advance, let alone three months.

*I have no BV games scheduled. None. Only GV and NCAAW. With the different codes in NYC there are different assignors for BV and GV. The GV assignors got on the stick much sooner than the BV assignors. I started receiving GV assignments (thank you, Camron) in mid-October. There are STILL tons of BV games that haven’t been assigned and the season begins December 2. I’m heading out to a BV meeting tonight. It should be interesting to say the least.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by egj13

You have your schedule through Feb already? I don't know what mine is for next week yet! Jealous...

I have most of 2014-15 already booked. They book 2 years in advance for conference games in many places here.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by egj13

You have your schedule through Feb already? I don't know what mine is for next week yet! Jealous...

My Dec is pretty booked, and I've got games into Feb already, but still some open dates that will hopefully fill in.

After my last Association, it's such a great benefit to be able to schedule so far out!

[Raymond]

I've received 2 HS assignments so far, Dec 5th & 6th, from my out-of-town association.

I don't think I've ever worked as much as 40 HS dates in a season. Probably no more than 35 in my busiest season.

[Rich]

New running clock rule here -- 40 points after the third quarter.

We flirted with it. We got to 34. Then the winning team brought in the bench and we ended up with a 30 point game.

Felt great getting back out on the floor.