How far would you go for the playoffs

[radwaste50]

MILEAGE, MEAL AND RIDER FEE PAYMENTS FOR ALL CONTESTS

Officials’ expenses for regular season and play-off games/matches in baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball, volleyball and wrestling:

(1) Reimbursement of an official’s expenses (meal or per diem) is based on one-way mileage intended to reach the site of a game/match/event is as follows:

51 miles to 150 miles=one meal @ $10
Over 150 miles=two meals = $15

(2) Per diem (where applicable) is $75 per day providing the official spends the night.

(3) Mileage is paid at the rate of $.405 per mile round trip from the official’s hometown.


a) EXCEPTION: If an official chooses to affiliate him/herself with a group from outside of his/her hometown where a local group exists, they will not be paid mileage from their home town. For example, if an official lives in Alamogordo but chooses to officiate with the Las Cruces association rather than the Alamogordo association, he/she would NOT be paid mileage from Alamogordo to Las Cruces for the game because he/she has made the choice to officiate outside of his/her home town, where a local group exists.

b) Only ONE driver will be paid for each contest.

(4) A rider fee of $10 is paid to officials who are riding (non-drivers only) on trips of 51miles or more one-way.

[Texas Aggie]

In Texas, we could be sent anywhere, including another state. Several years ago, the Austin chapter worked a game between 2 West Texas schools in New Mexico! That site was closer than any comparable site in Texas.

Our chapter, in North Texas, will work 3-4 games a year during the regular season on the Gulf Coast. San Antonio and Houston are fairly routine, Amarillo/Lubbock happens every so often, and Corpus Christi isn't out of the question. Heck, I've been in courtrooms in every corner of Texas, roughly half the basketball gyms in the eastern half of the state, so a football game 500 miles away wouldn't be anything new for me.

[MN BB Ref]

We also have a state quarterfinal this weekend in the Twin Cities but luckily we are a Twin Cities based crew. One of my crew members only has to go about 2 miles to our game site. In MN you have to travel at least 50 miles to get mileage reimbursement in the state tournament.

[BktBallRef]

Can't imagine what travel must be like for your guys in large states. The farthest I've ever driven is 3 hours one way.

But for me, that's what the playoffs are all about. Getting off work early, hittin' the road with the guys, going to a new school, seeing a couple of new teams. It's one of my most favorite things about officiating.

[MTUMP]

Though the teams travel big distances here, the officiating crews are assigned to a region, though a pool's location is rather regional. We are travelling 140 miles this weekend, which is about as long of trip for our pool.

[Zebraman79]

no mileage paid in San Diego for reg season or playoffs. Big county in terms of square mles but we try to carpool allthough our crew all lives in different suburbs....

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

In Texas, we could be sent anywhere, including another state. Several years ago, the Austin chapter worked a game between 2 West Texas schools in New Mexico! That site was closer than any comparable site in Texas.

Our chapter, in North Texas, will work 3-4 games a year during the regular season on the Gulf Coast. San Antonio and Houston are fairly routine, Amarillo/Lubbock happens every so often, and Corpus Christi isn't out of the question. Heck, I've been in courtrooms in every corner of Texas, roughly half the basketball gyms in the eastern half of the state, so a football game 500 miles away wouldn't be anything new for me.

Then you should know that especially in Region I in all classifications both teams travel far and wide to play, even in the first round. There are often times this even happens in the first round.

Usually in the second round it isn't strange to see a team from the El Paso area play a team from around the DFW area.

Basketball is even like this sometimes since they always have predetermined sites for the region final. One year four teams from the very immediate DFW area had to travel all the way to Midland to play each other in Region I. All schools were probably no more than 20 miles from each other.

Even district contests in west Texas require long drives in all sports.

That has happened before where two teams meet in New Mexico. It was probably the place to go to get good facilities. I'm almost quite certain there have been some playoffs games in Oklahoma.

[radwaste50]

For State Championships this weekend
5A
Las Cruces Mayfield vs Rio Rancho Cleveland distance 240 Miles
4A
Roswell Goddard vs Aztec distance 376 Miles
3A
Santa Fe St Micheals vs Lovington distance 286 miles