No game

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Yesterday we had a situation where a crew showed up for a sub-varsity game and there was no game and no prior notification of the officials.

Does your association have an agreement with schools to provide at least partial remuneration for the officials? Do some schools do this as a normal procedure?

The last time I showed up for a game that wasn't happening, I received the full game fee and an apology from the AD. I don't know if that's policy or just a good AD.

[CT1]

Our policy is for the R to call the home team on the day of the game. If they say they're playing and then cancel w/o notifying our assignor, it's a full fee plus travel.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by CT1

Our policy is for the R to call the home team on the day of the game. If they say they're playing and then cancel w/o notifying our assignor, it's a full fee plus travel.

For SubV?

[MD Longhorn]

We get paid. Every time this has happened but one, the school paid us. The other time, they notified the scheduler and he screwed up - so HE paid us.

[umpirebob71]

This happened to me only twice in 15 years. Both times we were paid in full.

[CT1]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

For SubV?

Especially for SubV. They're the ones who are most likely to cancel/change a game without thinking of notifying the officials.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by CT1

Especially for SubV. They're the ones who are most likely to cancel/change a game without thinking of notifying the officials.

Wow. In my experience in Texas, it's extremely rare to even know which one of us is going to end up being the referee on a subvarsity game before we all show up - that's usually decided when we get there. Much less have one of the officials call the school on it.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Wow. In my experience in Texas, it's extremely rare to even know which one of us is going to end up being the referee on a subvarsity game before we all show up - that's usually decided when we get there. Much less have one of the officials call the school on it.

Some assignments are like that here, many are done by crew -- I always get subvarsity assignments for my crew so that we can cross-train each other and work on things together -- especially at the white hat position.

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Wow. In my experience in Texas, it's extremely rare to even know which one of us is going to end up being the referee on a subvarsity game before we all show up - that's usually decided when we get there. Much less have one of the officials call the school on it.

Same here. For subvarsity, we don't know who else is doing the game with us.

I found out today that we will each be paid $25 which is not equal to the game fee for freshmen games ($39) but better than nothing. We'll take it and know that a better effort will be made in the future to notify us of last minute changes.