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Unless you can help train up-and-coming newbies... much easier to teach 'em the right way right away than try to break bad habits later.
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If I had a choice, CYO middle school ball would be one of my last choices to train anyone. They likely don't have a decent pool of officials in the first place, and in order to have the vast majority of that pool be competent, you'd have to pay them a decent amount of money. It's just not likely on all kinds of fronts.
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There is a reason we do not run a single high school camp at a middle school game or contest is involved. I will gladly pass if the goal is to train someone. I would have to be doing it for the easy money first and then training a distant 100 on the list of 100. Peace
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What is there to gain from calling any game? I don't get this. Whatever the level, if you're available and you're asked, if you want to go, go, and if you don't, don't go.
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For an experienced official, a CYO Middle School game offers nothing that will make that official better in any faze of the game. I think you'd have to reach pretty far to say that this represents an opportunity to "see plays" and learn anything. There's very little structure as there is in school district middle school games. If you want to go work these games, knock yourself out.
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Our assigner sits on the league board of directors. Coaches have to attend a mandatory new rules meeting at the start of each season. Officials are expected to show up in full uniform (no sweats, no sneakers). All Fashion Police rules are enforced. Assignments are made through Arbiter. Our assigner hosts (and pays for) a Holiday Pizza Party every year at a local pizza joint, all the pizza, and beer, you can eat, and drink. We used to have a preseason IAABO Refresher Exam study group until our "high school board" decided it was a great idea and copied it, and now it's mandatory that we go to one of the "high school board" Refresher Exam study groups. All our officials are "certified" IAABO officials. About 75% are high school varsity officials, the rest are junior varsity (subvarsity) officials. 25% of our forty Catholic middle school officials made the state public high school tournament list last year, and we've got a handful of college officials working these Catholic middle school games. Our assigner recruits only the best young officials to join our group, all young officials are vetted before they join us, they have to come highly recommended. Young officials don't apply, they have to be invited. Some relaxed mechanics. We don't switch on every foul, and don't always make it all the way to the reporting area. Lead will occasionally inbound with a bounce pass across the lane to avoid the trail moving across the court. Veterans are expected to offer constructive criticism to the younger guys, and gals, and help them move up the public high school officiating ladder. "Varsity" (eighth grade, seven minute periods) double header (a boys game, and a girls game): $86.00. "Subvarsity" (below eighth grade, six minute periods) doubleheaders, or tripleheaders: $30.00 per game.
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