Coach P
One of the conferences that I ref in in Northern Illinois does exactly what you just brought up. They have two referees that do the JV game, and then they continue on to do the lines for the varsity game. A center referee comes in just for the varsity game. I think they may pay more up here, a center ref gets at the minimum $53 for one game, and the referees that do the JV and line get at least $80. Another way that we are looking at handling new referees, or referees that tend to have lots of complaints against is as follows:
(I cut and pasted an email I just got from our officials association)
Observer Program:
RASO will establish and maintain an observer program as required by the IHSA. The observer program will attempt to allow for consistency in referee mechanics, encourage improvement in the level of officiating throughout the organization, and attempt to improve recruitment and retention of IHSA referees.
RASO will appoint a Program Coordinator for the RASO Observer Program who will attend the Observer training offered by the IHSA in July at the Annual Official’s Conference. He/She will then be responsible for the training of RASO’s additional observers.
Qualification required for selection as an observer for RASO shall be as follows:
1. He/She must be a certified IHSA official;
2. He/She must attend a RASO observer training program;
3. He/She must be current in their attendance at rules interpretation meetings as well as re-certification clinics.
4. He/She must express a willingness to serve as an observer both to the program coordinator and the RASO president.
5. He/She must support the mission of both the IHSA and RASO.
Selection as an observer will rest solely with the president of RASO.
RASO will maintain a list of current observers and post their names on the website. If there are additional people willing to be trained as observers, a waiting list of interested individuals shall be maintained and be available.
Compensation: Observers will be paid a fee of _______ ($25.00) per observation by RASO. RASO may apply for grant money to help defray the costs of this program.
Only RASO members will be observed. Only one official may be observed at any one time. The observer must be just observing and not involved in any other activity that can interfere with the task of observing.
Observations will begin with first year IHSA officials receiving priority. Any RASO member may request an observation at any time. The Program coordinator will identify officials who might benefit from an observation. The coordinator will contact those members by letter explaining the program and its purpose.
It will be the responsibility of the official desiring an observation to contact an observer from the list and coordinate the date, time, and place for the observation to occur. After the observation has occurred, the observer will share their feedback with the official. This information is confidential and will remain between the observer and official unless the official gives permission for the videotaping of their mechanics to be used at future clinics.
I hope that that was "substantive" enough for what's next. Maybe he should pull his head out and come up for air. I have no idea why you attempted to start an argument over semantics and syntatical word useage. Who cares. Why would you seriously talk or write like that? I am an intelligent person, but you are attempting to thump your chest like some angry silver backed gorilla attempting to display your "dominance" for all to see.
Back to the subject....
The SCHSL is not alone in picking and choosing what rules that wish to use. The IHSA picks and chooses certain rules also. We have to have coaching boxes, if the coach is found to be outside of these boxes at any time in the match, they are to be yellow carded. The second time they are given a red. Tell me where that is in the NFHS rules. We also have to ask the coach if the players are properly equiped, if at any time during the match we determine that a player is not properly equiped, the coach gets carded. Once again, not in the NFHS rule book. Don't think that the SCHSL is alone with picking and choosing rules. Why not use a 45 minute half, why not only have 7 subs like in certain state cup matches, or 5 like in others. Or we could go crazy and just have 3 subs for an entire game. YOu can continue these arguments forever and never come to a conclusion. I just thought that I would inform you that the SCHSL is not alone with the rules.
