Questions for the college guys...

[Sonofanump]

Originally Posted by schmitty1973

- How many hours are required during the week throughout the season and the offseason? (Meetings, scrimmages, practices, etc

We’ll my typical Saturday after a Friday night game is get up as late as possible. Pregame starts 150 minutes prior to kickoff and usually sit down breakfast with the crew is looked upon favorably. So if kickoff is at noon and the game is two hours away (average) then I’ll be leaving the house at 6:30am and getting back home near 5-5:30pm.

Originally Posted by schmitty1973

- What happens if you are assigned to a crew and you can't make a certain week? (family/work emergencies, etc...

I would not let it happen more than once, the coordinator of officials wants people he can count on.

Originally Posted by schmitty1973

- Alot of times there's alot of distance between colleges in a certain conference, is there a milage limit or are you open to every game in the conference?

I’d ask those already in that conference. Our assignments range from 5 ½ hours to the west of me to 2 1/2 hours south, to 3 hours east. Now if you head east for most of your games, you don’t head west very often.

Originally Posted by schmitty1973

- REPLAY: If you have a call that is overturned by replay, does this affect your ratings? I'm sure if you have obvious calls that are constantly reviewed, then it would affect them, I'm just not sure about he not-so obvious calls.

Our D2 conference does not have replay yet.