One week in. . .
 

Well, I just finished working my first week of high school volleyball. I did 3 JV/V double-headers. Honestly, it wasn't very fun. It just wasn't all that interesting. The easy stuff (legal hits, in or out) is pretty easy; and the hard stuff (rotations and overlaps) is impossible.

I'm not ready to quit, but I don't see myself doing this long-term unless there's some way to dramatically improve my ability to "officiate" the positioning. Otherwise, all I'm doing as the down official is administering subs and watching for net violations.

Don't feel bad, learning to recognize illegal alignments takes a while. Depending on how many matches you work, it might take a season or two before you're reasonably comfortable with it.

Here's the thing with IA. You don't see it. ::confused: Then you do. :) Then you don't. :confused: Then you do.:) It really takes a long time, and truthfully a lot of times I have to look very hard and with some teams unique positionoing its hard to see. I always have to get back adjusted at the first of each season. Remember when you were first calling block/charge or travel/not travel? As I have said before, though, for those of us who obviously did not play and those who did not coach, it's a different world at first. Don't give up yet Scrappy. But time will tell if you like it or not. RR