Dead Ball Officiating

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Now we're going to have quotas on each game?

You do not have to have quotas any more than you would do when assigning a game from people from a different area. You know dog gone well that if two teams were playing each other it would make no sense to assign the officials from only one of the towns playing. Even if the officials were totally above board or integrity, that alone would be raised by someone if something went wrong in that game. You have an all-African-American team where the use of a racial slur was apparantly used and a player was not ejected for that usage. You think that if an African-American on that game might have helped deal with those kinds of claims? And yes, that was the one apparently caught, not the only accusation.

Originally Posted by Rich

Sometimes you have to look beyond the town where people live. I live in a town of 4000 people, but I travel a good distance to work big school "city" hoops because I enjoy it quite a bit.

But in this state many people do not travel all over the place to work games. There are only a handful of "cities" in Illinois and they are nothing like Chicago or the area of Chicago.

Originally Posted by Rich

I think it falls on the IHSA -- they should have those guys' schedule in front of them (maybe they don't, but they should -- we have to submit our schedule to a site that's accessible by everyone, including the state office). Before a crew gets assigned a game, someone should be looking at their schedule and seeing if that crew is used to working that kind of basketball.

They do. But that does not mean that who you assign are prepared for the possibilities.

Peace