Assignor Politics

Originally Posted by Suudy

So in Nebraska, are the crews contracted by the schools directly? So if the state gave assignments to the associations, they would of course have no interest in sharing it with those outside of their group.

Here it is typically the case that the schools contract with the association. Usually an association covers a geographical area, such as a county, city, or even region. Also, the state gives assignments to assocations for positions, not for crews. For example, our association was given a B semi for HL and LJ, an A semi for R, a 4A semi for U, and an A final for BJ. We decided which of our officials will fill those spots.

For the playoffs, the state association contracts with the officials as a crew (they send the contract to the crew chief via our web portal), but the host schools has to pay them out of the gate receipts, which a percentage gets turned over to the state association.

Regular season, schools are responsible for their own contracts with officials, except in the Metro and River Cities Conferences, where the Midwest Officials Association (I just realized I've been saying it wrong in the previous postings as Metro Officials Association) has an assignor that assigns the crews for those games. The home schools are still responsible for paying the officials.