I'm telling you what I heard. I thought it pretty ridiculous but my pal told me that was his full time job. Who would have thought this would be someone's full time job?

 

The 9th region assignor has a real "other" full-time job.

Wouldn't his pay be made public somewhere?

The 9th region assignor has a real "other" full-time job.

 

That makes more sense.

Wouldn't his pay be made public somewhere?

 

No.

I have heard rumblings for awhile. Additionally, I have heard refs complain about the postseason assignments. There is a feeling among some 9th region refs that the head basketball coaches at the power schools collude with the assigner to to determine postseason assignments.

 

Anyone? On either issue?

I dont know the rules but I would assume the coaches are allowed to discuss assignments with the head guy. The top refs probably got the bigger games. You don't want a new or not highly graded ref doing a Holmes/Cov Cath district or regional game or a Cooper/Dixie game or whatever big game is happening. Do a better job on the court and you will get bigger games.

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The current (former) system is old and needs to change. There has to be another way of evaluating or rating people than the way they do it now. Basketball is difficult because there are so many games and too many people to see. If a coach doesn't see someone who's new(er) and doing very well, is it fair to him/her that they don't know them and rank them lower than Jim Farmer? Hopefully the crew that picks the new assigner will chose someone who is willing to change the current model. Personally, I'd hate to see them hire another 9th region official. Chris was doomed from day one. He went from being one of the guys on Wednesday and the boss on Thursday - bad combination. They need someone from outside their circle to lead them.

With all the crying about refs on BGP I think they should have BGP posters have a say in who gets what games. Clearly everyone on here knows more than all the refs.

I'm telling you what I heard. I thought it pretty ridiculous but my pal told me that was his full time job. Who would have thought this would be someone's full time job?

 

Your pal doesn't have a clue. Mr. Rolf has a full time job just like most of us. I'm pretty sure he couldn't live on just assigning games!

Wouldn't his pay be made public somewhere?

 

No.

 

The pay the refs/umps get per game is..

Totally disagree with the highlighted statement... They get paid to ref a game and should treat it no differently than if they were doing a HS game. Unfortunately, most of the guys they get for the MS games are just there to collect a check.

They are doing the best they can. To have to put up with all the goofy parents who probably never played, have no idea what the rules are but think they do, I would agree with the oldguy. Middle school parents are the worst of all. What do middle school refs get a game? cant be enough to put up with the goofy parents.

With all the crying about refs on BGP I think they should have BGP posters have a say in who gets what games. Clearly everyone on here knows more than all the refs.

 

Anyone else find the irony in this post, lol.

The pay the refs/umps get per game is..

 

Could be. I just don't think the other info is public.

So you are saying it happens more at MS games than HS?

 

No doubt it does. It is embarrassing, you feel sorry for the ones who are out of control and have no idea what they are talking about.

I agree the middle school games are used as a training ground and rightfully so. The ones that are there for the right reasons and take it seriously should be there and it is understandable to miss calls. I am talking about the ones that you can tell when they get there that they would rather be somewhere else and just go thru the motions. If it is a training ground let the middle schools grade them on their performance. I seen some of the bad ones move up to high school games this year and suddenly they are more serious. Take it serious at both levels not just log the hours.

Have the goofy out of control parents get their acts together and maybe the refs will also at the MS level.

A lot. I'm not sure if it's Rolfs or another guy. I was told this one guy does hoops, baseball and maybe softball. 6 figures. It may include assigning AAU games.

NO WAY is anyone getting 6 figures. Cmon.......

I'm telling you what I heard. I thought it pretty ridiculous but my pal told me that was his full time job. Who would have thought this would be someone's full time job?

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