Any Officials in the Victoria, TX area?

[Welpe]

I was wondering which TASO chapter that would be myself. Corpus seems to be the most logical choice. I don't think Houston goes out quite THAT far.

Also, there is a TASO basketball chapter in Victoria.

[Texas Aggie]

Actually, Mike, at some large chapters, its easy to get on the field on Friday night for someone experienced. If you're a good back judge, with, say, 10 years of experience, you'll work. A lot.

For larger school varsity in many of the large chapters in Texas, the games are assigned based on a coach's draft, usually of crews. Other chapters assign all games, and "lower level" games are universally assigned. I've worked some of these so-called lower level games that had 3-4,000 in attendance. Maybe not the best stadiums in the world, but the atmosphere is just as good as a suburban 5A district battle.

[TXMike]

You will not in your first year as a transfer. Especially if you do not get there and somehow manage to get on a crew before the picks.

[Texas Aggie]

I work in the second largest one. Plenty of first year transfers have worked varsity, and a few have made their way into draft (4A/5A) games, over the last few years. One of the guys on my crew, who came in 5 years ago after having worked in Kansas for 5 years, had 4 or 5 games his first year in -- but no draft games. In my opinion, he's one of the best wing officials in the chapter.

I think its a terrible mistake to deprive experienced officials varsity games just because they transferred in. I understand schedules being completed and the official being at the mercy of openings, but we all get better by putting our best people on the field. Any blanket policy of deprivation is BS.