Where are newer college officials needed?

[Raymond]

North Carolina is a good place for young officials.

Anywhere from DC to Boston will put you in the middle of a lot of conferences.

[BigT]

Thanks BadNews.

[Nevadaref]

CA has so many schools to cover that they are willing to take anyone who shows an interest and is a reasonable official. I know of two refs who are currently working JC games at the age of 21. I know of two other situations in which refs got picked up for JC before even getting promoted to varsity games in their HS chapters.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Nevada-which HS units do the officials belong to who are doing JUCO before HS varsity?

[chseagle]

Here in my neck of the woods, there's about 6-7 Colleges/universities within 3 hours of one another, plus 5 JUCOs within the same radius.

Unsure how many high schools as there's that many.

[BigT]

Originally Posted by chseagle

Here in my neck of the woods, there's about 6-7 Colleges/universities within 3 hours of one another, plus 5 JUCOs within the same radius.

Unsure how many high schools as there's that many.

Do they need college officials?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BigT

Do they need college officials?

chseagle is a high school scorekeeper, he wouldn't know.

And what do you mean by "do they need college officials"? If they are part of a conference is very, very, very likely that the conference has a supervisor of officials who hires refs for the league.

Usually it's only those small, independent non-NCAA, non-NAIA schools that self-hire officials just for their own games.

Bottomline though, is if these guys are good (and I'm not doubting they are), they need to get out to some camps outside of Utah, and they will be noticed and start getting on conference supervisors' radars.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by chseagle

Here in my neck of the woods, there's about 6-7 Colleges/universities within 3 hours of one another, plus 5 JUCOs within the same radius.

Unsure how many high schools as there's that many.

Since the supervisors of the conferences that those colleges are in (including the juco ones) already have officials from Utah on their rosters, and Big T says these young guns have been to camps and are getting known...my guess would be that the supervisors out here already know who these people from Utah are.

[chseagle]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Since the supervisors of the conferences that those colleges are in (including the juco ones) already have officials from Utah on their rosters, and Big T says these young guns have been to camps and are getting known...my guess would be that the supervisors out here already know who these people from Utah are.

It's one of those situations that you never know until you try.

The numbers I listed are just from memory & distance estimations.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Nevada-which HS units do the officials belong to who are doing JUCO before HS varsity?

That can happen anywhere. I had a buddy who was pick up in D3 after one year of HS ball.

[BigT]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

CA has so many schools to cover that they are willing to take anyone who shows an interest and is a reasonable official. I know of two refs who are currently working JC games at the age of 21. I know of two other situations in which refs got picked up for JC before even getting promoted to varsity games in their HS chapters.

Thanks Nevadaref