Double Booking

[Multiple Sports]

Originally Posted by SE Minnestoa Re

I am an assignor and I have no issue with someone taking a higher level game provided I can sent a qualified umpire to the lower level game. For our association, JV is the lowest we work with, then high school. However, four of my umpires (me included) work quite a bit of NCAA ball and most of the time I will let them bug out for the college game.

What I will not put up with for long is dumping one high school game for a supposed better one. If I find out you are doing that, your schedule will be getting thinner in a hurry!

I read through all of these posts and here is where i am going on this................

I assign both hs baseball and hs softball and for the last 17 years, I have officated a different sport collegiately. I have no problem if a guy gets a college assignment and wants to turn back my game. Here is why - now the JV guy gets bumped up to a V game, the freshman ump gets a jv game and
someone sitting home gets a freshman game. Now what I detest is the guy
who is asked to work a game in another district between the top two teams and I have given him a jv game. Sure I will let him off my game, but he better
not be waiting by the phone during the post season.

In College basketball, if you get a call from a D1 supervisor at 10am asking if you can work that night and you have a D3 game that evening, you would be a fool not to call your D3 assigner $1,200 > $150..........

[Bandit]

Multiple Sports.....you state...."now the JV guy gets bumped up to a V game, the freshman ump gets a jv game"

I hope that this not a "blanket" statement. ??? I have done some assigning. No one gets an "automatic bump up". There are reasons why some umpires do some levels and some do others. Agreed?

$1,200 > $150.......... may we assume that integrity has no room in your thought process ???? And you do this for the $$$$. That is what this last statement seems to imply.

[Multiple Sports]

Absolutely I agree. My officials are not grouped as V / JV / FS. I can put anyone where I choose. I was referencing this based on not having any other
V officials available on that day. Especially if the V game is going to be a blow out, then I will bump everyone up a level.


I know that this is a softball site, but the college basketball world is a different animal. I have heard numerous D1 bosses say that this is a business first. I can guarantee that all the D3 bosses would tell me to take that D1 game and they would get someone else. Remember most assigners were in that position as an official themselves at some point.

I get the integrity / character issue, but I don't think it is applicable here.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

I read through all of these posts and here is where i am going on this................

I assign both hs baseball and hs softball and for the last 17 years, I have officated a different sport collegiately. I have no problem if a guy gets a college assignment and wants to turn back my game. Here is why - now the JV guy gets bumped up to a V game, the freshman ump gets a jv game and
someone sitting home gets a freshman game. Now what I detest is the guy
who is asked to work a game in another district between the top two teams and I have given him a jv game. Sure I will let him off my game, but he better
not be waiting by the phone during the post season.

In College basketball, if you get a call from a D1 supervisor at 10am asking if you can work that night and you have a D3 game that evening, you would be a fool not to call your D3 assigner $1,200 > $150..........

Calling to ASK off is completely different than simply returning the game or worse, professing an injury as in the OP. ASKING off is not a problem at all, so long as the asker will accept "no" as an answer if it's too late to replace him.