I really wonder just what line of BS these school folks have been given by the UIL. This AD should already know there is a set pay scale in place now so perhaps he is thinking the UIL will give him a set ganme fee for varsity football also? ? ?
From a Houston TV station website: http://www.khou.com/sports/high-school/UIL-referee-dispute-threatens-to-cancel-high-school-football-playoffs--105395408.html
"We can't negotiate with every single individual (referee)”, said Ed Warken, the Galena Park Independent School District athletic director. “There has to be some kind of set pay scale, so we can budget."
Athletic directors from local districts met Wednesday to discuss the issue. They said it was very unlikely the games would be cancelled.
"Whether we get (the referees) here locally, or go other areas of the state, we will move forward and get officials for our games," Warken said.
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It appears that the UIL, Supes, AD's, and School Administrators are all so vociferously complaining about not being able to "budget" for officiating without something being done to officiating fees in order to achieve those ends.. It is all too apparent that in order to accomplish that, that there would have to be the abolition of the gate fee structure as well as round trip mileage for officials. If the UIL ends up persevering in this matter, then it will only be a matter of days before 1204 will be reworded to accomplish those ends. Translation: Like basketball, gate and mileage go away and a flat fee for all UIL varsity football games immediately goes into effect. The UIL basketball officials paid a $50.00 UIL Registration fee: Now the
Good UIL Dr. and his
Dancing Monkey say that's it's absolutely free for football. Does that mean that they are going to refund those UIL Registration fees to basketball and the other sports? Likely not! If any of you UIL basketball people get a refund check back from the Manor Road Crowd, please let us know, where I can go into cardiac arrest! Bottomline: the UIL will have the potential to reap a minimum of an additional $500K alone just from UIL Registration Fees/Taxes.
So when a given football game draws a megacrowd, the officials will get considerably less than a C-Note for all their travel time, pregame, the game itself, postgame, and the trip back home, all for the aforementioned paltry sum. The UIL will take it's 15-25% of the gate receipts (not to even mention any possible TV/radio revenue) before expenses, leaving the remainder to the competing school districts to divy up only after taking care of the game expenses. Under the UIL Plan, what used to have to be paid out as gate-receipt revenues and round-trip mileages to the officials would now become attractive windfalls to the UIL and to the school districts.
Revenuewise, the UIL makes out like a bandit, the school districts finish in second place, and the officials will be dragging up the rear, and the former two entities live happily ever after!. Trust me in saying that if it were absolutely possible, the UIL would get us to officiate for free, or maybe for a comped UIL trinket or two! The sad fact of the matter is that if they are ever successful in prevailing in this lawsuit with TASO, that is exactly what is going to happen!