State Final Assignment

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by GPC2

...so Illinois has a crew system whereby a crew works together all year, and then in playoffs and the state championship game, the crews stay together...or do they go to an All-Star crew system for the post-season?

We choose our crews on our own. We schedule all our games during the regular season as a crew. We have to tell the IHSA who is on our Playoff Crew and they decide what we will do as a group. It is possible under certain circumstances to work as an individual on put together crews. But if you are from the Chicagoland area, you are not likely to go far without declaring who your crew is for the post season. I have in the past worked as a 6th man on other crews (Saturday games for example) and filled in when need be. But when it came to the playoffs you work with your normal crew. I have also early in my career received playoff games as an individual where I worked with an already put together crew and usually this is for earlier rounds when he needs one or two guys to help a crew out because of an injury. There was a crew that had worked a Semi-Final last year and the crew chief (Referee) got hurt, he put a guy on their crew and they worked to the 4th Round together.

There is one common instance where there might be an "All-Star" crew. The Chicago Public League and Chicago Catholic League do not assign their varsity games as a crew. The administrator will sometimes take a group of individuals that are qualified and put them together and take them deep into the playoffs or state finals for a year or so. That is the only example I can think of where that consistently happens.

I hope that answers your question.

Peace