Louisiana Officials

[Texas Aggie]

Regular season football rates are ok, but not outstanding.

The 85/70/60 rate for football would be on the lower end for varsity games in Texas. Most schools above 3A (median classification), except for those in mostly urban districts who's games are not well attended, have pay rates ranging from higher to much higher than that.

This is really one of the problems Texas faces -- effective pay rates for varsity games involving large schools can be quite good (assuming the district pays what they are supposed to). Subvarsity rates, however, are another story. Rates for other sports need to increase. Football officials that work 0-4 subvarsity dates per year don't really care about the fee and may not be willing to risk losing even one Friday night fee to take a stand -- either for football subvarsity or other sports at all levels.

[Welpe]

Agreed. I just moved back from there after 6 years and even the varsity rates were all over the place. Our TAPPS pay for varsity was a flat $85 which was good but our rates working smaller varsity games were all over, and often at the whim of the ADs. We worked more than a few small towns with absolutely packed stadiums and came away with $70 checks (including travel).

The only thing I'm going to really miss about working football in Texas was using NCAA rules. You can keep everything else.