Appreciate your Assignors

[Kansas Ref]

What are the general Qualifications of Basketball Game Assignor?
Is this a standardized system of quals e.g., college degree, certification, minimum years of referee experience, etc..
Anyone know or is it just whomever knows enough athletic directors and such?
Are there any standardized quals for this job?

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

The members of my local IAABO board appreciate our assignment commissioner with a salary of $30,000.00. There are 325 members who pay a set amount each year in dues ($125.00), and a percentage fee (7%) of the money we earn from our game assignments. Our assignment commissioner assigns about 70 high schools (freshman, junior varsity, varsity, girls, boys) and a large number of public middle schools. We also have an assistant commissioner who earns $2,000.00 and assigns high school scrimmages, and Special Olympics Unified Games.

Originally Posted by Kansas Ref

What are the general Qualifications of Basketball Game Assignor?
Is this a standardized system of quals e.g., college degree, certification, minimum years of referee experience, etc..
Anyone know or is it just whomever knows enough athletic directors and such?
Are there any standardized quals for this job?

Man, when I read the amount from Billmac, I was thinking the same thing!! Holy crap, that still blows me away. I realize that I'm from a smaller state than most (or all...) but I was shocked to read that.

[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by frezer11

Man, when I read the amount from Billmac, I was thinking the same thing!! Holy crap, that still blows me away. I realize that I'm from a smaller state than most (or all...) but I was shocked to read that.

Assuming 70 schools x six teams [B&G V/JV/F] x 20 games = about $3.50/game

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by so cal lurker

Assuming 70 schools x six teams [B&G V/JV/F] x 20 games = about $3.50/game

Teams are unlikely to have 20 home games.

At 10 games, it's $7.00

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Teams are unlikely to have 20 home games.

At 10 games, it's $7.00

And of those, how many times do the officials work the Fresh/JV back-to-back? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to minimize the work done by the assignors, but 30 grand is a significant chunk of cheddar!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by frezer11

... 30 grand is a significant chunk of cheddar!

And he doesn't even have to pay for Arbiter ($2,300). We pay for it through our dues, and fees. And in case anybody misunderstands my post, our assignment commissioner earns every penny that he makes. He's worth $30,000.00. He's a classy guy, he's fair, he sticks up for his officials, and he's out almost every afternoon, and night, evaluating officials, sometimes observing at more than one site on the same day.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by frezer11

And of those, how many times do the officials work the Fresh/JV back-to-back? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to minimize the work done by the assignors, but 30 grand is a significant chunk of cheddar!

I disagree, for that amount of work.

But, it's why some people want to be assigners, and some don't.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I disagree, for that amount of work.

And most of us don't know the amount of work that goes into it. I can't imagine all the phone calls, texts, and emails they get every single day.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by frezer11

And of those, how many times do the officials work the Fresh/JV back-to-back? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to minimize the work done by the assignors, but 30 grand is a significant chunk of cheddar!

I don't think you appreciate how much time and effort goes into making sure that there are officials at this many sites. Schedule changes, subs for officials, coordinating weather-related postponements, along with all the other stuff.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Rich

I don't think you appreciate how much time and effort goes into making sure that there are officials at this many sites. Schedule changes, subs for officials, coordinating weather-related postponements, along with all the other stuff.

I can certainly vouch for the complexities and difficulties of assigning. I'm of the opinion that Billy's assignor is likely underpaid.

Of course, I can help a busy assignor greatly reduce their efforts in many ways.

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by Rich

I don't think you appreciate how much time and effort goes into making sure that there are officials at this many sites. Schedule changes, subs for officials, coordinating weather-related postponements, along with all the other stuff.

As I said earlier, I'm not trying to minimize their work or in any way imply they are overpaid, I just didn't realize the compensation was to that level. Not only do you have the initial games to assign, but there's turn backs, game time changes, weather postponements, last minute turnbacks.... AND... I'm assuming most of these assigners also have another non-basketball job they do as well!

[wyo96]

Originally Posted by frezer11

Man, when I read the amount from Billmac, I was thinking the same thing!! Holy crap, that still blows me away. I realize that I'm from a smaller state than most (or all...) but I was shocked to read that.

Freezer, to put in perspective, he is assigning the equivalent of EVERY HS Fresh, JV, and V game in Wyoming, plus some MS. I don't know if I would do it for twice the amount!