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[Rich]

Originally Posted by AremRed

He should join us in theConflict of Interest? thread!

It's a JV game.

Around here one of the teachers from the home school would work the game. Or the AD.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Rich

It's a JV game.

Around here one of the teachers from the home school would work the game. Or the AD.

I remember my P.E. teacher officiating many of my home middle school games.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Rich

It's a JV game.

Around here one of the teachers from the home school would work the game. Or the AD.

That's interesting.
Here, I can't work JV games for my daughter's high school. She doesn't play basketball, and doesn't have any friends on either the boys or the girls teams. I checked with the assigner before the season started (she's a freshman this year), and he said to go ahead and block the school.

I had an issue with Arbiter, and for the first time in 6 years, I actually got assigned to a game at that school. I reminded him, and he took care of it and gave me a different game.

[jTheUmp]

Honestly, I've often thought it would be a lot of fun to officiate a varsity football or basketball game at my High School alma mater... Of course, I graduated from there over 15 years ago and live in a different state now, so it'll never actually happen (even without any potential 'conflict of interest' considerations), but still.

[crosscountry55]

I hope I look as great as Adrian Dantley when I'm 60. Wow.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

I hope I look as great as Adrian Dantley when I'm 60. Wow.

I hope I look that good at 55! I don't at 54.......

[Raymond]

I went to 4 different high schools, good thing I don't live in those states.

My dad officiated some of my games when I was a junior in high school in New Jersey.

Couple of years ago I worked a regional play-off game with a mixed crew, and the local official was a graduated of that school.

[letemplay]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I went to 4 different high schools

Military brat or just looking for the right "fit"? like Kevin Durant

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by letemplay

Military brat or just looking for the right "fit"? like Kevin Durant

Military brat + divorced parents.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

Honestly, I've often thought it would be a lot of fun to officiate a varsity football or basketball game at my High School alma mater... Of course, I graduated from there over 15 years ago and live in a different state now, so it'll never actually happen (even without any potential 'conflict of interest' considerations), but still.

My first HS varsity game was at my alma mater, 12 years after I graduated. I was a fill-in, and informed the assigner that I had played for that school 12 years before, it wasn't a big deal to him.

[BatteryPowered]

My Dad officiated one of our football games when I was in HS. When he told the assignor I was attending there he was told "That's OK. I have seen these two teams...your son's school needs all the help it can get."

Then he added that he trusted the crew to do a professional job and the game needed a strong crew.

Still didn't like the wise crack

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I graduated from high school in 1969; I was a two time varsity letterman in basketball. My highs school's varsity basketball coach coached two more years. Our school dominated our league, winninng 15 league championhips (I played on two of those championship teams) in the 21 years that my coach coached there. Our school also finished second four times (I played on one of those teams) during those 21 years.

I have not officiated a basketball game in the Youngstown area since the 1986-87 season, and even today I would not officiate any basketball game involving my high school because even today there would be people in the stands from my high school and from certain schools in our league that would recognize me from my high school championship seasons. And I didn't even start, !

Some people would also associate me with my sister who was a stellar high school golfer (I wasn't too bad myself) and later the dominate amatuer female golfer in the Youngstown area after she returned home after college.

I might do a girls' JV basketball game involving my high school but that would be the extent of it.

One has to remember that I never started completing Schedule C's until 1982 and my wife and I were first married and living in Glendale, California, when I received an telephone call from the Secretary of the Trumbull Co. Bkb. Off. Assn. (Warren, Ohio, and I am still a member of this association even though the last time I attended a meeting was in Nov. 1986) telling me that one of our veteran members had just been audited by the IRS. A fan who didn't like his officiating turned him into the IRS and he had to pay over $1,000 in back taxes, interest, and fines. And this wasn't even Mafia payback because he wasn't in the Mafia, ; but I am, .

I could go on with other stories about conflict of interest, but it really is not worth it even when you make the correct call and it goes in "your" school's favor. Remember: No good deed goess unpunished.

MTD, Sr.